Instruction Quotes

• 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
  • Creatures
  • Instruction
  • Civilized Animal

• Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Character
  • Religion
  • Schools

• No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

  

  Catherine McAuley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Productive

• It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Reading

• What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Instruction
  • Regulation

• Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Perfect

• The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Book
  • Paid

• When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

  

  Confucius
  • Intelligence
  • Condition
  • Sincerity

• In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Instruction

• The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

  

  Aristotle
  • Temptation
  • Instruction
  • Organs

• It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Curiosity
  • Modern
  • Methods

• The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • History
  • Errors
  • Former

• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Return
  • Bloody
  • Plague

• We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Instruction
  • Consolation
  • Correction

• We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Students
  • Instruction
  • Current

• There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'

  

  Karen Lord
  • Together
  • Building
  • Ingredients

• The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Teach
  • Hard
  • Villainy

• One of the biggest problems we have is people not following instructions properly when they're voting,

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Problem
  • Instruction

• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

  

  Epictetus
  • Blame
  • Condition
  • Instruction

• On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Wisdom
  • Instruction
  • Flows

• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Children
  • Minds
  • Stamp

• When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Instruction
  • Spacecraft

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