“If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.” — Laurence J. Peter, Peter’s Quotations
Tag: advice
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“Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.” — Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,” Chicago Tribune (1997-06-01)
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“Sometimes even bad advice can point a man in the right direction.” — Ted Chiang, Hell Is the Absence of God
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“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1750-02-05)
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“Today you look back upon a world that has moved so far in one hundred years that nothing you see and feel, touch and taste, hope, believe, and love is as it was when your grandfathers learned from their grandfathers how to live in another day.” — William Allen White, “Duty in a Democracy,” commencement address at Northwestern (1937-06-12)
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“It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.” — Austin Kleon, How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)
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“My advice isn’t ‘bad’ in the sense that it will lead them astray, but it is bad nonetheless, in that it won’t lead them anywhere.” — Agnes Callard, “Against Advice,” The Point (2019-05-19)
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“It’s entirely possible that the person you’re eager to help doesn’t believe what you believe and doesn’t want what you want.” — Seth Godin, “Unrequested advice, insufficient data, unexplored objectives”
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“All errors which he is likely to commit against advice and warning, are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to what they deem his good.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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