Quotes on Advice

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.