Giving and Getting Advice

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

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 (1874 - 1936)

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal (1925 - )

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

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)