Quotation Explorer - 'Instruction'

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. - Ambrose Bierce
Try to breathe," he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you.I breathed. - Alice Sebold
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. - Malcolm Gladwell
Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction. - Laura Schlessinger
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. - Epictetus
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert
The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt. - Sunday Adelaja
Stories are Life’s instruction manuals. - Robert Peate
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. - Plato
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. - R. Buckminster Fuller
The Bible is instruction for life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. - Cicero
The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. - Elizabeth George
A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons. - Gary Rohrmayer
Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue. - Chuck Wendig
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. - Henry Ward Beecher
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. - Samuel Smiles
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly. - Anonymous
Lead by example, not by instruction. - Jared Matthew Kessler
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. - Albert Einstein
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful. - Sylvia Boorstein
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. - Albert Einstein
The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading. - Amanda Penland
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction. - L. David Marquet
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