Advice Quotes

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct

Benjamin Franklin

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Bill Cosby

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Ghose Aurobindo

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

E. M. Cioran

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves

Samuel Johnson

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.

Bertrand Russell

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease

Hippocrates

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

Leonard Ravenhill

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Thomas L. Masson

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Susan Sontag

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Susan Sontag

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Friedrich von Schiller

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Friedrich von Schiller

Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

William F. Buckley

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

Dr. Charles Stanley

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Kahlil Gibran