Quotes About Wisdom

Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others.

If you really want to advise me, do it on Saturday afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock. And you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Not on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.

Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.

Advice after injury is like medicine after death

Never answer an anonymous letter

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

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

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

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

The best people seldom give you the best advice.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: Do not try.

Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn't.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.