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Advice Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself. We need more dissent and less dogma.”

Camille Paglia

Advice, Thinking, Reading, Freedom, Dissent

2. “Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

Charles Lamb

Simplicity, Advice, Wisdom, Minimalism, Reflection

3. “I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.”

Charles Lamb

Heart, Library, Knowledge, Wisdom, Advice

4. “Isn’t the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?”

Steven Wright

Silence, Wisdom, Communication, Humor, Advice

5. “Advice is what we seek when we know the answer, but are scared to accept it.”

Ankur Warikoo

Advice, Fear, Truth, Acceptance, Courage

6. “Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.”

Scott Adams

Advice, Success, Perspective, Wisdom, Independence

7. “You often hear advice from successful people that you should “follow your passion.” That sounds perfectly reasonable the first time you hear it.”

Scott Adams

Passion, Success, Advice, Motivation, Career

8. “People think they follow advice but they don’t. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don’t waste time giving advice. You can change only what people know, not what they do.”

Scott Adams

Advice, Influence, People, Psychology, Behavior

9. “Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.”

Scott Adams

Success, Advice, Business, Uniqueness, Entrepreneurship

10. “If you haven’t already told your kids ‘don’t fellate the president’ then you’re probably a bad parent.”

Scott Adams

Parenting, Humor, Advice, Politics, Controversy

11. “Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.”

Scott Adams

Wisdom, Advice, Humor, Business, Perspective

12. “Never make a decision when you need to pee.”

Leonard Cohen

Decision, Pee, Need, Timing, Advice

13. “To advise is not to compel.”

Anton Chekhov

Advice, Wisdom, Influence, Choice, Persuasion

14. “A low-minded person should not be given good advice.”

Chanakya

Wisdom, Advice, Low-minded, Ignorance, Futility

15. “No amount of advice changes his attitude. He does not listen to good advice. Rather, he gets angry.”

Chanakya

Stubbornness, Advice, Foolishness, Behavior, Anger

16. “Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man’s house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.”

Chanakya

Risk, Danger, Advice, Destruction, Consequences

17. “I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.”

Stendhal

Madness, Despair, Advice, Friendship, Emotion

18. “When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.”

Seneca

Advice, Empathy, Health, Understanding, Perspective

19. “Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”

Seneca

Friendship, Advice, Self-Awareness, Trust, Wisdom

20. “No enemy is worse than bad advice.”

Sophocles

Enemy, Worse, Advice, Danger, Misguidance

21. “Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.”

Sophocles

Men, Wise, Instinct, Advice, Learning

22. “There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”

Sophocles

Hateful, Bad, Advice, Misguidance, Regret

23. “Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.”

Alice Walker

Individuality, Belonging, Identity, Society, Advice

24. “I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.”

George Soros

Politics, Advice, Election, Bush, Strategy

25. “I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.”

George Soros

Advice, Integrity, Ethics, Leadership, Common Interests

26. “Every counsel which is affirmed so strongly that it may not be changed for any condition that may befall, I say this counsel is wicked.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Advice, Wisdom, Flexibility, Judgment, Decisions

27. “Good counsel is most wanting when it is most needed.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Wisdom, Advice, Need, Timing, Judgment

28. “The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Advice, Wisdom, Detachment, Influence, Understanding

29. “Advice is based on our sanskars. Implementation is based on theirs.”

BK Shivani

Advice, Perspective, Action, Understanding, Wisdom

30. “They took each other’s advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.”

Gustave Flaubert

Advice, Books, Opinions, Decision Making, Confusion

31. “Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Fear, Future, Advice, Humanity, Reflection

32. “I like to give opinions, not suggestions.”

John Wooden

Perspective, Advice, Honesty, Expression, Communication

33. “A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Protestant, Advice, Aid, Solicitor, Society

34. “Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Humor, Wisdom, Kindness, Communication, Advice

35. “I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Advice, Responsibility, Opinion, Burden, Perspective

36. “The worst men often give the best advice.”

Francis Bacon

Wisdom, Paradox, Irony, Advice, Human Nature

37. “The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.”

Francis Bacon

Wisdom, Counsel, Advice, Objectivity, Understanding

38. “The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.”

Francis Bacon

Trust, Advice, Guidance, Integrity, Wisdom

39. “He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”

Francis Bacon

Advice, Example, Leadership, Integrity, Influence

40. “There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.”

Francis Bacon

Advice, Friendship, Self, Flattery, Wisdom

41. “He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.’”

Francis Bacon

Marriage, Wisdom, Youth, Age, Advice

42. “Books speak plain when counselors blanch.”

Francis Bacon

Books, Knowledge, Wisdom, Advice, Learning

43. “Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.”

Charlie Munger

Career, Work Ethics, Advice, Integrity, Relationships

44. “Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

Kindness, Speech, Advice, Greatness, Compassion

45. “It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.”

Epictetus

Advice, Correction, Improvement, Guidance, Constructive Criticism

46. “Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.”

Joyce Meyer

Discernment, Advice, Decision-Making, Wisdom, Faith

47. “Sound advice comes from veterans of pain.”

Charles R. Swindoll

Advice, Wisdom, Experience, Resilience, Guidance

48. “Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.”

George Washington

Advice, Wisdom, Communication, Patience, Respect

49. “People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.”

Mother Teresa

Marriage, Prayer, Forgiveness, Relationships, Advice

50. “The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”

Mother Teresa

Success, Advice, Integrity, Action, Wisdom

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