Top 78 Quotes About Wisdom And Advice
#2. I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Susan Orlean
#3. Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
Elizabeth Berkley
#4. Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.
Kelly Williams Brown
#5. What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?
And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?
Laini Taylor
#6. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.
C. JoyBell C.
#7. My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl
#8. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#9. Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
Lois Lowry
#10. The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.
Phillip Lopate
#11. The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.
Peter Straub
#13. Riches are not only measured by money but the wisdom and knowledge you possess.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the whole Zen master wisdom and practical advice crap.
Richelle Mead
#17. Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
#18. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Seneca The Younger
#22. Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
Raquel Cepeda
#23. It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. Wisdom bought with a tremendous price, Jane. You know what William and I suffered. I suppose the benefit to our tumultuous courtship was the trial-by-fire aspect of it all.We learned our lessons via grievous methods, but we did learn them.
Sharon Lathan
#25. My children will not remember the words of wisdom I've passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you've given. However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you've lived before them.
Dorothy Kelley Patterson
#26. He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
Omar Sharif
#27. Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.
Lucy Calkins
#28. Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.
Jess C. Scott
#29. Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.
G.A. Henty
#31. At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Lee Jampolsky
#33. You get on the bull, and you ride until he sees who the master is. Relentless. Unforgiving. Merciless." ~Kane~
Lucian Bane
#34. "On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked him point-blank for his opinion about the wisdom of their commitments he used a favorite race-track maxim of his: "You can't tell till you bet.""
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#35. An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!
Evinda Lepins
#36. God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.
Jim George
#37. I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible.
Billy Graham
#38. I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you.
Kateryna Kei
#39. Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.
Murray Rothbard
#41. It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.
Saul Bellow
#43. ALWAYS BE CAREFUL, AWARE AND WATCHFUL - BUT NEVER CHEAP AND SELFISH.
Sahara Sanders
#44. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.
T.A. Miles
#47. If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.
Vincent De Paul
#49. All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
#50. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
C. JoyBell C.
#51. Two steps forward ... one step back ... I've always hated that old cliche too ... I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.
Isabelle Rowan
#52. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.
George S. Clason
#53. My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.
Liam Perrin
#54. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Scott Adams
#55. Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.
MJ DeMarco
#56. Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.
Seinabo Sey
#58. No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
#59. There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
David Puttnam
#60. If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
Christopher Paolini
#63. Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Ptahhotep
#64. Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.
G.K. Chesterton
#65. Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.
Diane Samuels
#66. Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
Cathie Pelletier
#67. After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.
Alexandre Dumas
#68. Remember that I'm old enough to give advice, and the advice I'm giving you now is exactly right, and a bird in the hand is better than a vulture in the air, ...
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#69. I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct
a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.
Virgil Suarez
#70. My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Don't react to any angry actions, words and behaviours. Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. The effects of overworking; you forget which day it is and unable to think straight.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.
Ruth Simmons
#74. There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?
Maggie Stiefvater
#75. Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
Marcel Proust
#76. Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.
C. JoyBell C.
#77. Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.
C. JoyBell C.
#78. Nixon to Clinton: When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.
Nancy Gibbs
