Top 100 Wisdom Advice Quotes
#1. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner
#2. People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#3. 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
#5. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen
#6. 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
#8. People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough
Carlos Luiz Zafon
#9. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.
Sam Harris
#10. Humankind is the greatest resources. Don't lose faith in the people.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
Saadi
#17. You will learn to be wise, or you will destroy yourselves as effectively as the Dragumon wished.
Jewel
Charity Bradford
#22. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. 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
#25. The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. There is wisdom out there that can't be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won't condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
Lance Conrad
#28. 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
#29. Don't go looking for boys in the dark
They will say pretty things then
leave you with scars.
Do go looking for boys in the park
For that is where the true gentlemen are.
Anna Godbersen
#30. Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers
#31. It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.
Thomas McGuane
#32. 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
#33. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt
#34. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#36. A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#37. The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.
Charles F. Glassman
#38. He hated when his own advice applied to himself.
Rick Riordan
#39. More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.
Gerry Geek
#40. I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
Elizabeth Janeway
#43. I wonder
if I should let my hair go grey
so my advice will be better.
Margaret Atwood
#45. It may be too late, if you wait until Christmas to show those who you love, you have loved them.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. 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
#49. 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.
#50. My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl
#51. The sexiest advice:
Dear humans, stop role-playing in your lives; these sort of things are meant to be explored only at times you won't mention in public.
Saurabh Sharma
#52. 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
#55. We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman
#57. Never forget to forgive yourself; always remember to love yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#58. All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
#60. Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.
Matt
#61. Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
Neil Gaiman
#62. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.
George S. Clason
#63. When you think positively, you attract divine forces for a positive lifestyle.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. 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
#69. 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
#73. Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
Al-Ghazali
#74. 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
#75. I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets of pure idiot wisdom, the sweetest kind there is.
C.M. Stunich
#76. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#78. 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
#81. People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.
Jaeda DeWalt
#84. 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
#85. Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Atwood H. Townsend
#86. After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.
Julion Okram
#89. Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given!
Sorin Cerin
#90. If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. The effects of overworking; you forget which day it is and unable to think straight.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.
Matt Marlin
#93. Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
Suzy Kassem
#94. Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.
Liam Perrin
#95. Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.
C. JoyBell C.
#96. 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
#97. 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.
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.
Lailah Gifty Akita
