Quotes About Wisdom

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

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

Even these [obligatory] works should be performed without attachment to the fruits. This is My definite supreme advice, O Arjuna.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.

Never give advice - sell it.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Be ni...rds of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it.

An intelligent person not only knows how to take advice, but also how to reject it.

It's a bad child who does not take advice.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

He seeks no advice when He builds; He seeks no advice when He destroys. He seeks no advice while giving or taking. He alone knows His Creative Power; He Himself does all deeds. He beholds all in His Vision. He gives to those with whom He is pleased.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

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.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.