Instructive Quotes

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry`s decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.