In my view the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction but pursues you never.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

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.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go but without the discipline of real life they remain of the nature of theory only.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent not genius not inventive mental powers.

In Holland they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

If the Liberals' law is passed will sex education in the schools including elementary grades include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know about something you do not want to know.

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

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

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.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age your experience your psychological and spiritual need.

Children also have artistic ability and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.