Instruction Quotes - Page 2

• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Motivational, Wisdom, Book

  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth ch. 4 (1969)

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• Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.

  Richard de Bury

  Mistake, Book, Ignorance

  Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Family, Success

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• In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

  Anthony Hope

  Life, Learning, Understanding

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Sports, Nurse

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Teaching, Giving

  "A Random Walk in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, 1973.

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• It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity

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• The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Christian, Unbroken

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Goodbye, Teacher, Work

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• But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Disposition, Efficacy

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.79

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• 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

  Book, Longing, Good Company

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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• You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

  Lewis Black

  Nice, Would Be, Verbs

  "Lewis Black: Taxed Beyond Belief". Documentary, Short, Comedy, 2002.

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• 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

  Wisdom, Real, School

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

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• Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Sky, Office

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Teacher, Adversity, Pay

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• In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

  John of the Cross

  Confidence, Enlightenment, Draws

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• Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

  Laurence Sterne

  Education, Father, Knowledge

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.173

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• I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Yoga, People, Teach

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• There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Benefits, Reason

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• To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Believe, Mean, Essence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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