Advice Quote by Samuel Johnson

Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good.

— Amy Chan

“Giving advice before understanding the situation is like a doctor giving a prescription without knowing the symptoms.”

— Avi Liran

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

— Hippocrates

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:”

— Khalil Gibran

“You can blindly accept the current medical treatment as prescribed by your doctor, or you can question it and develop a better treatment yourself.”

— Steven Magee

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.

— Carl Hart

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

“People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us…

— Anonymous

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the…

— Harriet Martineau

“Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick, they are easily led to believe that this knowledge…

— Marcel Proust