Doe Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“These 'Instructions' were held in high esteem as text-books and writing exercises in schools—a circumstance to which we owe the preservation of many of…

— Ptahhotep

“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering…

— Ryan Holiday

“For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study…

— René Descartes

“It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a…

— Frederick Douglass

“The rest of the letters were pretty much the same as I got every day now. Two hundred and forty-six proposals, a number of…

— Kenneth Patchen

“... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.”

— Tania Aebi

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear,…

— Immanuel Kant

“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in…

— Jane Austen

“These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all echo the…

— Ray Bradbury

“We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. I was looking forward to writing some…

— C.S. Lewis

“Experience alone, that supreme educator of peoples, will be at pains to show us our mistake. It alone will be powerful enough to prove…

— Gustave Le Bon

“subjects. Directions. CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS”

— Joseph Devlin