A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.
So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all. " "Not unless you instruct me to," said Will. "This evening sounds as if it might be better than I thought.
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
Those things that hurt, instruct.
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong. . . And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
