Advisable Quotes

• I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Giving, Effort

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• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

  Agatha Christie

  Trust, Money, Memorable

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.

  Joe Hyams

  Fighting, Thinking, Trying

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.50, Bantam

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• To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

  Gregory Bateson

  Thinking, Two, Quality

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Respect, Learning

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• It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

  Charles Darwin

  Honesty, Ignorance, Humility

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Ambition, Pride

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

  Ayn Rand

  Discovery, Venture, Opinion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Association, Impossible, Disgusted

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.22

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• To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Character, Opportunity

  "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".

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• Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

  Emma Watson

  Wise, Crazy, College

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• I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been deterred from experiment or observations, which would have proved directly or indirectly serviceable .

  Charles Darwin

  Loss, Science, Men

  "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter".

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• Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

  Katherine Helmond

  Thinking, Play, Age

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• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  Nassau William Senior

  Political, Principles, Use

  Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.3

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• It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Three, Circumstances

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• In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

  Thorsten Heins

  Mature, Darling

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• Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

  Ayn Rand

  Reading, People, Library

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin

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• I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

  William Banting

  Men, Might, Different

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• It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner

  Frank Zappa

  Loser, Winner, Ifs

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• This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

  Paul Nurse

  Winter, Dark, Long

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• A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Thinking, Fearless

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.215, Madison & Adams

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• Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Philosophy, Science, Opposites

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

  Max Anders

  Obedience, Portions, Believer

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• Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism.

  Paul Robeson

  Gun, Order, White

  "Paul Robeson Speaks: The Negro and The Soviet Union". Book by Phillip S. Foner, p. 378, 1978.

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• If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular.

  Quentin Crisp

  Confused, Self, Names

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