Instructively Quotes

#1. If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Archibald Geikie

#2. Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Epictetus

#3. The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Flannery O'Connor

#4. Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Charlotte Gray

#5. Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

#6. Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#7. I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

Daniel Radcliffe

#8. Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Lillian Hellman

#9. The world rolls and somewhere out there are things I don't know. Let us sleep on God and mystery, a quiet, fragile ship floating on the sea, behold sleep.

Clarice Lispector