Quotes About Advice

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow oneÂ's own advice.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

If we still advise we shall never do.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.