Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.
When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
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.
You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.
A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.
He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored