Top 27 Quotes About Giving Bad Advice

#1. There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

Rex Stout

#2. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Theodore T. Munger

#3. I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself.

Shawn Lukas

#4. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Hermann Broch

#5. Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Chuck Berry

#6. Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

Paul Krugman

#7. He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.

George Schultz

#8. A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#9. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.

Robert Boswell

#11. It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice ... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

Ben Heppner

#12. Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Sean O'Casey

#13. Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

George R R Martin

#15. I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

Carrie Fisher

#16. Carquinez Strait

David Downing

#17. Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.

Malcolm X

#19. If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!

John Waters

#20. I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

Takeshi Kitano

#21. Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#22. The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Pablo Picasso

#23. Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.

Michael Bastian

#24. The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

Horace Walpole

#25. Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

Nita Ambani

#26. Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.

Tori Carrington

#27. College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

Frank Bruni

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