Ben Silbermann Quotes

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

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

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

Send a wise man and don't advise him. He should know what to do.

Get advice, then make your own decision.

Never be led in new paths by the blind

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.