Advice Quotes

Listen to all plucking a feather from every passing goose but follow no one absolutely.

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

I always advise people never to give advice.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence importance or worth.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone and the wisest man needs 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.

In those days he was wiser than he is now he used frequently to take my advice.