ADVICE QUOTES VI

quotations about advice

I love when someone I'm asking for advice tells me they've gone through the exact same thing I have, and I even love when, as they continue talking, it becomes clear that it's not the same thing at all. I love hearing advice I wanted to hear, because then I feel right. But I also like hearing advice I don't agree with, because then I get to feel right and superior, which are two of my favorite feelings to have.

KATIE HEANEY

"Why I've Stopped Giving And Asking For Advice", Buzzfeed, March 1, 2016


When my daughter was small I looked forward to giving her advice. In fact, I sincerely believe she also enjoyed it. For the most important thing a Dad can do is get his child ready for life. Not that I ever thought I was ready but at least I have been able to survive my years. She used to sit real close to me or on my lap and I would explain the mysteries of life to her. I would tell her of morals and ethics that made life as good as it can possibly be. Years later, when my daughter hit the wonderful teenage years, she didn't accept my advice as she did in the past. In fact, she obviously dreaded it. However, I gave it to her anyway because I wanted her to survive her teenage years.

JIM FABIANO

"The terrifying concept of giving advice", Seacoast Online, February 23, 2016


Another problem with advice is that the advisor seldom understands the full implications of the problem. When people share their concerns with us, they often display only the "tip of the iceberg." The advisor is unaware of the complexities, feelings, and the many other factors that lie hidden beneath the surface.

ROBERT BOLTON

People Skills


The race to provide robo-advice is accelerating. Fund managers, banks, brokers and financial advisers are all adapting their business models to fend off the competitive threat of automated online investment services. Although still a fledgling industry, robo-advice has rapidly become a priority for some of the world's largest asset managers. They recognise the potential for low-cost online advice to attract new audiences, particularly the young.

CHRIS FLOOD

"Race to provide robo-advice hots up", Financial Times, March 6, 2016


Good advice is like gold. Hopefully someday we'll be confident of finding it, in a transparent way that suits all our needs.

TOM HARTMANN

"Top 5 reasons we avoid advice", New Zealand Herald, February 21, 2016


Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

Tags: Leonardo da Vinci


A sort of itch for settling other people's destinies, and so gaining a title to their curses for our pragmatical and fatal interference, is the commonest of all forms of sanctioned lunacy.

CHARLES READE

Love Me Little, Love Me Long

Tags: Charles Reade, destiny


Whatever advice you give, be brief.

HORACE

Art of Poetry

Tags: Horace


Advice is not often asked of seeming idlers: it is most common to interrupt the busy by such requests; and naturally enough, since those who attend most carefully to their own concerns, are generally thought best qualified, by experience, to judge for others.

ANONYMOUS

Southern Literary Messenger, vol. 4


And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer, than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused, and drenched, in his affections and customs.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Friendship", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Tags: Francis Bacon


Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: Aeschylus, suffering


Good advice is the second mother to a child.

TUUMYERIDAM DONALD

"Tension in Chiana-Paga NDC over primary holdup", Ghana Web, February 23, 2016