Quotes about advice
119 quotes from 93 people
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900An Ideal Husband (1895)
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech at Salthill (5 October 1864)We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002The Humble Programmer (1972)
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925)
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Writing Plays for Television” in New World Writing, #10 (1956)
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
John Steinbeck1902–1968The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Ch. VI- Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Endymion (1880), Ch. 85.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 190
Philip K. Dick1928–1982Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 11 (p. 196)Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave, Line 11Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 4, pp. 134–135
