We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. Chesterton on instruction
G. K. Chesterton128 quotes“We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.”
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G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MoliereMoliere Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.
Abdul Sattar EdhiAbdul Sattar Edhi 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 SmilesSamuel Smiles A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
Samuel SmilesSamuel Smiles But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process
IsocratesIsocrates If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
IsocratesIsocrates They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It’s a tragic place.
Abby JohnsonAbby Johnson Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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