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Instruction Quotes - Page 4

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.264

The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.

Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.160, David C Cook

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Thomas Carlyle (1882). “The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship”

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”

Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

Barbara Seranella (2013). “An Unacceptable Death”, p.75, Macmillan

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.165, Shambhala Publications

We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.150

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.150

Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.

Noah Scalin (2016). “365 Expanded Edition: A Daily Creativity Journal”, p.209, Voyageur Press (MN)

HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain.

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.22, Harper Collins