A Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

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Quote Author

Conor Cruise O'Brien
Irish - Politician
November 3, 1917 - December 18, 2008

I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.

Gwen Stefani

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

Al Franken

Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.

William H. McMaster

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Scott Berkun

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

Norm MacDonald

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

David Levithan

Maybe I think too highly of myself, but I think maybe sometimes I can give some good advice - sometimes bad advice, I'm sure - and I think that's a way of giving back.

Taavet Hinrikus

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

Laurence J. Peter

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Woodrow Wilson

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

Omar Sharif

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.