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Instruction Quotes - Page 3

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.551, Faber & Faber

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

"Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York". Book by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan and John Romeyn Brodhead, 1853.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.79

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.360, Psychology Press

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

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

Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.219

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.24

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.88, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

"You Must Know: Benedict Cumberbatch". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. May 4, 2012.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall