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"The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction." »Chinese
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"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." »John Ruskin
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"Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense." »Ingrid Weir
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"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." »Vartan Gregorian
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book." »Muriel Clark
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"book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible." »Al Jaffee
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"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction." »Tom Browne
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." »Cicero
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"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too." »Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
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"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." »George Gordon Byron
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"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." »Thomas Merton
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"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction." »Michael Faraday
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." »Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson
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"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable." »Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"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." »Samuel Smiles
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"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous
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"Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family." »Manu
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"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition." »Richard Clark
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"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out." »Unknown
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
