Bill Bryson’s is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.

The Things which hurt, instruct.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

Instruction is important but inspiration kindles the candle for a life time.

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never...

My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is “think before you answer the questions”. I am convinced that some multiple choice answers could be so close that you might...

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer – not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi – though it is true that what...

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D’Alembert’s principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

It is a dangerous position to be in when you can’t see, can’t hear and won’t listen…

Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you...

As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child’s life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do...

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then...

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.

The parent is the child’s guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds...

A true anecdote which illustrates his unworldly nature is of the instruction he received in 1922 to appear at Buckingham Palace to receive the accolade of the Order of Knighthood; Bayliss replied that as the...

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.

The Bible is instruction for life.

Some people advise you what to do and some people forbid what not to do, but the genuine people just ask you if they can do anything for you.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools...