Instruct Quotes

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.