Quotes about advice

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on advice
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"Whatever advice you give, be short."

Horace on advice
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"A good scare is worth more than good advice."

Horace on advice
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"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance."

I Ching on advice   

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

Johnson, Ben on advice   

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

Johnson, Samuel on advice   

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

Jong, Erica on advice
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"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."

Knebel, Karl Von on advice
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"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."

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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]"

Letterman, David on advice   

"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."

Lope de Vega on advice   

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."

Macaulay, J. C. on advice
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"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

Masson, Thomas L. on advice   

"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."

Melbourne, Lord on advice   

"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on advice
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"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on advice
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"Good advice is beyond all price."

Proverb on advice
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

Proverb on advice
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"Never give advice in a crowd."

Proverb, Arabian on advice   

"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"To advise is not to compel."

Proverb, German on advice   

"To advise is easier than to help."

Proverb, German on advice   

"Never give advice unless asked."

Proverb, German on advice
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"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."

Proverb, Spanish on advice   

"One can advise comfortably from a safe port."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on advice   

"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on advice   

"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."

Seabury, David on advice
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

Seneca on advice
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

Shakespeare, William on advice
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"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you."

Shaw, George Bernard on advice
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"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on advice   

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."

Smith, Hannah Whitall on advice   

"No one wants advice, only corroboration."

Steinbeck, John on advice
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"These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on advice   

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

Syrus, Publilius on advice   

"It is bad advice that cannot be changed."

Syrus, Publilius on advice