Instruction quotes
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"It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself."
"Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns."
"Public instruction should be the first object of government."
"We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction."
"There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong."
"When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating."
"Fiction or fable allures to instruction."
"Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions."
"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."
"It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful."
"I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching"
"Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind."
"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."
