Quotes About Advice

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

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.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Night is the mother of counsels.

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