Advice

Counsel, direction, guidance, warning

QUOTES

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent,

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband, 1895

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Teresa of Avila

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
Charles Parnell

See Also

History

The role of eldres in Native American governance

Senate approval of treaties and Presidential appointments

Decision-making in the Quaker church

Arts & Science

Peer review in the PhD process and in judging scientific papers

Literature

Cassandra's curse; always to be right, never to be believed.

Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son

Shakespeare: Polonius' advice to Hamlet

Allen Drury: Advise and Consent

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