Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
—Josh Billings
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
—Lord Chesterfield
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
—G. K. Chesterton
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
—Franklin P. Jones
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
—James T. Kirk
William Shatner’s character on Star Trek
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
—John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
—James Russell Lowell
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
—Seneca
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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