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Thursday, 7 August 2008
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"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in." (Rogers, Will - Experts)

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Browse Quotations about Advice

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice
A word to the wise is infuriating.
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.
Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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.
Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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.
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
Give help rather than advice.
Good advice is beyond all price.
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.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
Never give advice in a crowd.
Never give advice unless asked.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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.
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
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]
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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.
The worst men often give the best advice.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
To advise is easier than to help.
To advise is not to compel.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.