Quotes About Wisdom

Probably the biggest advantage of success resides in the fact that you don't have to listen to good advice any more.

Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty.

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

He who takes advice is wiser than the one who gives it.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

An exceptionally knowledgeable person with his deep knowledge of wide ranging subjects has the capability to provide solutions to almost every problem. He has the intelligence required to understand the basic nature of the problem and then work accordingly towards finding it's solution. He always gives right advice to the right people at the right time.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

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

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

No vice is so bad as advice.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Never give advice in a crowd.