Quotes About Instruct

#1. We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. - Author: An Wang

#2. To this day, most institutions of higher learning either do not know how to instruct students in reading beyond the elementary level, or lack the facilities and personnel to do so. - Author: Mortimer J. Adler

#3. So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself. - Author: Dennis Bray

#4. Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe ... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe. - Author: Richard Dawkins

#5. You help far more when you depict a person favorably than instruct its weaknesses. - Author: Albert Camus

#6. Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid. - Author: L. William Seidman

#7. To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also. - Author: John Bunyan

#8. An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. - Author: John Ashcroft

#9. As the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct. - Author: Augustine Of Hippo

#10. I instruct you to be the obeyer,
A rhythm recipe that you'll savor,
Doesn't matter if you're minor or major,
Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player,
As you inhale like a breath of fresh air - Author: Phife Dawg

#11. Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom. - Author: Sophie Kinsella

#12. Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#13. The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope. - Author: Elizabeth George

#14. Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity. - Author: Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

#15. About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it? - Author: Fay Wray

#17. Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. - Author: Vikram Chandra

#18. My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. - Author: Theodore Sturgeon

#19. You said we must coexist peaceably,' he continued. 'I agree. Instruct me how.'
'That was a lie,' she said, her voice choked. 'I meant to trick you to my table. You know this!'
'Truths sometimes appear in unbidden forms. - Author: Meredith Duran

#20. A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great. - Author: Calvin Coolidge

#21. good man's example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content, - Author: Helen Macdonald

#22. I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. - Author: Jock Sturges

#23. Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#24. We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins. - Author: Saint John Chrysostom

#25. If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. - Author: Xun Zi

#26. If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring. - Author: John Flavel

#27. We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. - Author: Alberto Manguel

#28. Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear. - Author: Joseph Addison

#29. bring Michelle's story to life. The experiences God brings to us weave a tapestry of beautiful people who support, encourage, exhort, and instruct us. Each author's tale is flavored by those - Author: Rosemary Hines

#30. Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected. - Author: Horace Mann

#31. As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. - Author: M. Scott Peck

#32. You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves. - Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#33. As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. - Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

#34. With a smile we should instruct our youth ... - Author: Moliere

#35. The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion. - Author: George Inness

#36. Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger. - Author: J. Oswald Sanders

#37. Instruct instinctively.
Instruct intelligently.
Instruct imaginatively.
Instruct impressively. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us ... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us. - Author: Keanu Reeves

#39. Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold. - Author: Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#40. The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted. - Author: John Taylor Gatto

#41. I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous. - Author: Jane Austen

#42. Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight. - Author: Mario Bunge

#43. You didn't 'instruct' me to stay," Ceony countered. "Just to leave the dining room. Which I did."
Mg. Aviosky rubbed the bridge of her nose under her glasses. "This feels very much like detention again, Ceony. - Author: Charlie N. Holmberg

#44. Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job. - Author: Ron Koertge

#45. [Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State. - Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#46. You are not here to verify,/ Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity/ Or carry report. You are here to kneel/ Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more/ Than an order of words, the conscious occupation/ Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#47. Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. - Author: William Carlos Williams

#48. All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow. - Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach

#49. You will go to the lady and say certain things as i instruct you
Suppose she sends for the police?
She will not send for the police
You cannot know that !
Mon cher, practically speaking, i know EVERYTHING - Author: Agatha Christie

#50. The Things which hurt, instruct. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#51. Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves. - Author: Timothy Dwight V

#52. Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers ... Restlessness and discontent are vital things ... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do. - Author: Kay Redfield Jamison

#53. I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous. - Author: Kristan Higgins

#54. Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching. - Author: Francis Chan

#55. The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate. - Author: Lauren Groff

#56. Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct. - Author: Brian Tracy

#57. Whenever a soul is brutalized, cleansing and healing must happen. But
you are strong, Quinn. You learn from the past and the present, but you do not
let it dictate your future. You let it guide you, inspire you and instruct you
only. - Author: Joey W. Hill

#58. The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works. - Author: J.C. Ryle

#59. 3"Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! - Author: Anonymous

#60. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#61. May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore. - Author: Saint Patrick

#62. I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. - Author: William Shakespeare

#63. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all. - Author: Pythagoras

#64. And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer
Before all temples the upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss,
And madst it pregnant. - Author: John Milton

#65. The words of Romans 12:18 are important to remember. They instruct us to be at peace with everybody if we are given the chance. People who know how much they have been forgiven are to be willing to forgive everybody who earnestly repents of anything they have done.126 - Author: Mark Driscoll

#66. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe. - Author: Plato

#67. For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance - Author: Rene Descartes

#68. A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. - Author: Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#69. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. - Author: Edmund Burke

#70. The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. - Author: George Henry Lewes

#71. It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs. - Author: Edsger Dijkstra

#72. I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. - Author: Anne Hutchinson

#73. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons. - Author: Bryant McGill

#74. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. - Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#75. We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way they should be, the future is pretty dim for the human species. - Author: Oren Lyons

#76. Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent. - Author: Kevin Gates

#77. No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. - Author: Henry Adams

#78. A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. - Author: Thomas A Kempis

#79. Bad advice will blind you.
Good advice will instruct you.
Great advice will enlighten you. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#80. Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them. - Author: Sydney J. Harris

#81. Instruct the mothers of the French people. - Author: Daniel Webster

#82. My goal is to correct evil. I have to instruct these people on the right path. - Author: Viktor Shel

#83. Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. - Author: Plato

#84. As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. - Author: Diogenes

#85. It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach. - Author: Pere La Combe

#86. Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. - Author: Alison Gopnik

#87. Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent! - Author: Waite Hoyt

#88. Instruct humbly.
Instruct happily.
Instruct hopefully.
Instruct honorably. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#89. The kind of woman who could pleasantly instruct you to fuck off, dear, and you immediately would because you'd just hate to disappoint her. - Author: Neal Stephenson

#90. Mom sez I like talk radio, teaching, and consulting 'cuz they ensure captive audiences. True or not (let Freudians decide), I'm driven by a "four eyed" mission to inform, instruct, intrigue, and inspire. Moreover, I like interactivity: If you're listening, I'm listening. Talk with me! - Author: Lisa Tolliver

#91. Instruct efficiently.
Instruct effectively.
Instruct exceptionally.
Instruct excellently. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#92. I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do. - Author: Mark Twain

#93. One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct. - Author: Delarivier Manley

#94. If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged role. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#95. We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct. - Author: James A. Garfield

#96. Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation. - Author: Bernhard Rust

#97. A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#98. We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. - Author: Jane Austen

#99. Instruct brilliantly.
Instruct blamelessly.
Instruct benevolently.
Instruct beneficially. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#100. Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct. - Author: M. Scott Peck