Advice Quotes - Page 5

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, One Thing

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• I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Senior, Learning

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Trying

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Welcome, Wanted

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• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Trying, Suggestions, Easy

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Never give advice in a crowd.

  Pope Paul VI

  Giving, Never Giving Up, Crowds

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• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Beautiful, Ocean

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• When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

  Helen Rowland

  Heart, Men, Giving

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

  William Shatner

  Captain Kirk, Able, Captains

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• It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Giving, Needs, Normal

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• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Years, People, Needs

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• Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Gambling, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

  Peter Medawar

  Truth, Giving, Age

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Life, Sex

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• I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

  Henry Ford

  God, Spiritual, Work

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• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Life And Love, Wise Words

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• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

  Fay Wray

  Book, Next, Feels

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• My advice is to make acting your second career choice

  Amber Tamblyn

  Careers, Choices, Acting

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• The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

  Charles de Lint

  Want, Trouble

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Apologizing

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Acceptance

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Advice, the smallest current coin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Coins, Currents, Smallest

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 14

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• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  E. W. Howe

  Wise, Motivation, Fear

  "The last word on Fear" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 1999.

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