Quotes in Advice

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.


People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.


Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.


Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.


Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.


Learn to say, 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.


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.


In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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