Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.
Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel. . . Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are. . . will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.
Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. . . . [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies. "
In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies
If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work
When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.
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.