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Chinese Proverb

If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Topic: Advice, Communication
Location: Glacier National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Never give advice unless asked. — German Proverb

We may give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. — Rochefoucauld

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. — Jean de La Fontaine

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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 Truman

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

They that won't be counseled, can't be helped. — Benjamin Franklin

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Many receive advice, few profit by it. — Publilius Syrus

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. — Miguel de Cervantes

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Whatever advice you give, be brief. — Horace

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Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples. — Rochefoucauld

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Conduct is the highest advice. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Inquiry saves a man from mistakes. — African Proverb

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Two-thirds of help is to give courage. — Irish Proverb

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That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others. — Phaedrus

You can't put an old head on young shoulders. — Persian Proverb

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams

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The pot calls the kettle black. — Miguel de Cervantes

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Nothing is given so profusely as advice. — Rochefoucauld

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. — Benjamin Disraeli

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Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find—nothing. — Aesop

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A bow which is stretched to the limit breaks. — African Proverb

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