Instruction Quotes - Page 18

• We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Males, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

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• There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Findings

  Thomas Carlyle (1882). “The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship”

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• Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

  Daniel Defoe

  Sex, Women, Understanding

  An Essay upon Projects "Of Academies: An Academy forWomen" (1697)

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• We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Women, Ignorance

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

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• Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Instinct, Proof

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• If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Liberty, Essentials

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

  Lisa Alther

  Children, Parenting, Issues

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.362, Open Road Media

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• The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

  William Matthews

  Book, Ideas, Easy

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• The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

  Robert Briffault

  Education, Syphilis, Infantile

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• First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

  Hippocrates

  Education, Art, Science

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, Sacrifice, Media

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• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.

  Robert Burchfield

  Doctors, Adults, Diaries

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• We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

  Asa Gray

  Book, Order, Ideas

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  God, Doe, Favors

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• If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the end we need someone to assess us and give us personal instruction. The two go together.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Book, Dvds, Two

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

  Alan Lightman

  Emotional, Law, Issues

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Following Instructions, People

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• In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

  Richard Cobden

  Religious, Body, Found

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.574

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• As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

  Frank Delaney

  Art, Writing, Two

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• In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Science, Purpose

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Art, Integrity, Records

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• Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Men, Order, Friendly

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• What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

  Francis Collins

  Powerful, Book, Science

  Francis Collins' remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov. June 26, 2000.

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• Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

  Michael Shannon

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

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