Instruction Quotes

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. (William Blake)
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. View quote
Michael Faraday
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. View quote
Vitruvius
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament. View quote
Vitruvius
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
No one can by monopolization deprive others of the instruction necessary for their happiness; the instruction must be communal. (Francois-Noel Babeuf)
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. View quote
Stockwell Day
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man. View quote
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task. View quote
Maria Montessori
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. View quote
Cicero
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth. View quote
Peter Stuyvesant
You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought! View quote
Lewis Black
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular” writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. (5) [tr. George Long (1888)]. (Epictetus)
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works. View quote
John Cleese
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid? View quote
Eudora Welty
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell