Quotes about Advice

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Everyone has the answer. Everyone has this. You just got to move slowly. You get good little bits of advice and go from there.

It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring;

Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.