Quotes About Experience

When you need professional advice, get it from professionals, not from your friends.

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

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Today I will gladly share my experience and advice, for there are no sweeter words than I told you so.

There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

No matter how valuable, advice on how to succeed, coming from an unsuccessful man, will be received with poor grace or even ridicule.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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