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Quotes About Wisdom

Good advice is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little effect......
~ Carl Gustav Jung
We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
~ English proverb
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
~ Unknown
Follow the advice of those who make you crie, never of those who make you laugh.
~ Arab proverb
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool.
~ Unknown
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~ Eden Phillpotts
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
~ Agatha Christie
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
Advice is the smallest current coin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Never give advice unasked.
~ German proverb
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
~ William Somerset Maugham
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
~ Unknown
Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
~ Unknown
Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
~ Unknown
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
~ Unknown
The worst men often give the best advice.
~ Unknown
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
~ Tom Hopkins
Good but rarely came from good advice.
~ Lord Byron