(163 quotes found)
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
William Blake
“The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.”
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
“Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you”
Stephen Vizinczey
“I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop”
William Shakespeare
“They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on the sole”
Garrison Keillor
“For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: "Pair off in threes"”
Yogi Berra
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein
“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
