quotations about advice
Based on all the people whom I have seen in my 35 year professional career, good advice doesn't often come from hanging around the water cooler at work, your brother-in-law muttering a few words between bites of turkey or the neighbor who is quitting his job to become a day trader. Good advice is advice that suits your personal situation, not that of a broad class of people like you.
JOHN NAPOLITANO
"Making Cents: Defining good advice", Dover Post, March 1, 2016
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
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.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE
letter to A.C. Stanhope, Oct. 12, 1765
Sometimes the worst advice is the advice that you don't get.
JOHN NAPOLITANO
"Making Cents: Defining good advice", Dover Post, March 1, 2016
Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.
CROFT M. PENTZ
1001 Things Your Mother Told You
The worst men often give the best advice.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Advice is like deep waters in the heart of the person, and a wise individual knows how to draw it out.
MISHLEI 20:5
The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.
DAVID J. LIEBERMAN
Get Anyone to Do Anything
To take advice of some few friends, is ever honorable; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters; and the vale best discovereth the hill.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Followers And Friends", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
The right advice is very personal, and will depend on your particular situation.
JASON VISNER
"How To Tell If You Are Getting Bad Advice About Your TSP", FedSmith, February 23, 2016
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
attributed, Mumbo Jumbo
When I ask for advice, it is usually because I want someone to tell me that I am OK, that my relationship is OK, that everything will work out the way I want it to. It is extremely difficult for me to trust my gut, particularly when I know for a fact that my gut -- confused by anxiety -- is so frequently full of shit.
KATIE HEANEY
"Why I've Stopped Giving And Asking For Advice", Buzzfeed, March 1, 2016
Sometimes stepping back, locking down and taking good advice is the best way to limit the damage.
ANDREW PROCTER
"Crisis contenders", Lexology, February 24, 2016
It is easy enough to advise a drunkard not to drink, but difficult for you to understand his view point on the subject if you are not a drinking man yourself.
WILLIAM CROSBIE HUNTER
Dollars and Sense
His advice is most esteemed in other men's matters, that is unerring in his own--example is the most forcible argument of precept.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Good advice is like a useful tool, yet it requires hands to make it work.
PANO GEORGE KARKANIS
Thoughts for Meaningful Life
There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
AL FRANKEN
Oh, the Things I Know!