Quotes about advice

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had."

"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."

Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.

No one wants advice — only corroboration.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.

The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

“I wonder, sir, if you’d be good enough to advise me.”

“Certainly, within the limits of discretion,” said Eubanq. “I should warn you, however, that free advice is usually not worth its cost.”