From one learn all. [ Virgil ]
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. [ Ovid ]
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows.
In every rill a sweet instruction flows. [ Young ]
Nature hath made nothing so base but can
Read some instruction to the wisest man. [ Aleyn ]
Fiction or fable allures to instruction. [ Franklin ]
To pour the fresh instruction over the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast. [ Thomson ]
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot. [ Pope ]
He need not go away from home for instruction. [ Terence ]
What instruction the baby brings to the mother! [ T. W. Higginson ]
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [ Horace ]
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Public instruction should be the first object of government. [ Napoleon I ]
+{Instruction} Seek to, delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind. [ Cowper ]
The seeds of first instructions are dropped into the deepest furrows. [ Tupper ]
To be instructed in the arts softens the manners and makes men gentle. [ Ovid ]
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living. [ Carlyle ]
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. [ Kabir ]
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. [ Addison ]
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]
The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience; the stupid by necessity; and brutes by instinct. [ Cicero ]
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. [ Froude ]
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. [ Goldsmith ]
Read, read, sirrah, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; frost your mind and mortify your flesh. [ Congreve ]
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence. [ E. de Girardin ]
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. [ Jonson ]
He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it, and the record is gone. Example is engraven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation: books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind. [ Mrs. Inchbald ]
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]
O blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee. [ Sterne ]
Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]