Agatha Christie Quotes

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

Good council has no price.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Take ye counsel together in all matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

Do not seek advice from the ignorant.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.