Advice Quotes
5149 quotes by 2439 authors
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Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
— William Shakespeare
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
— William Penn
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
— Mark Twain
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
— John Heywood
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
— Alexander Pope
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
— William Shakespeare
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Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a…
— Edward Kennedy
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built…
— Edith Hamilton
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
— Sigmund Freud
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We give nothing so freely as advice.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine…
— Elizabeth Janeway
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