ADVICE QUOTES II
quotations about advice
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice--a still weaker thing to take it.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Good advice is like a tight glove; it fits the circumstances, and it does not fit other circumstances.
CHARLES READE
A Terrible Temptation
All advice is useful. I especially value suggestions from those who think differently than I do. Remember that you don't have all the answers. Whether or not you choose to act on the advice that's extended to you, my philosophy is that any thoughtful commentary is interesting to consider.
DAVID EHRENBERG
"How to respond to unsolicited advice about your startup", Wichita Business Journal, March 1, 2016
Advice is like bogus money, everybody wants to pass it on ye; nobody wants to take it.
CHARLES CLARK MUNN
The Heart of Uncle Terry
From the people who profess to be one's friends, advice is like a pill thickly enveloped in jam.
LAURA L. SUTTON
The Two Poles
Don't allow all advice to persuade you, but listen and make that determination afterwards.
DARRAH BRUSTEIN
"How to respond to unsolicited advice about your startup", Wichita Business Journal, March 1, 2016
Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.
DENNIS BAKKE
Joy at Work
In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.
RICHARD LAYMON
The Stake
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
Recently ... both the acts of giving and getting advice have left me feeling slightly uneasy. Things that well-meaning people have said to me burrow into my skull like worms, wriggling around there for days until they are knocked out by the next piece of supposedly sage wisdom. Left too long in my worrier's brain, suggestions so easily become maxims, and generalizations start sounding like facts. I worry more now, too, about doing to others what I know their advice can do to me.
KATIE HEANEY
"Why I've Stopped Giving And Asking For Advice", Buzzfeed, March 1, 2016
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone
There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Oct. 12, 1712
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Onion Girl
And when I am through, you think my advice is not good Then go out into the world and pay with thy blood. Heed not my words of warning, remember not what I say. Pay for thy wisdom, cast my advice away.
RICHARD MURRAY
At Eternity's Shore and Other Tales
In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Advice is like straw thrown on a fire.
ISAIAH 47:14
Advice is always the swan song of the passing generation, the quavering high treble of our experiences which we insist upon dedicating to those who come after us.
HENRY'S WIFE
The Independent, vol. 63
It's always good to be careful when you give advice, because someone might take it.
CROFT M. PENTZ
1001 Things Your Mother Told You
One problem with being an expert on everything is that you cannot turn to anyone else for advice
GARY W. SMITH
Life Changing Thoughts