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Advice Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
- Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
- The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
- Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
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