Advice Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

— Michel de Montaigne

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that he thinks…

— Robert Boyle

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from…

— John Calvin

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up…

— Marian Seldes

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld