Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Advice when most needed is least heeded

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

To offer change to a Spaniard was like offering a drink to a confirmed alcoholic.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

From ignorance our comfort flows.

… no one can have lived in the world without observing that most people, when in prosperity, are so over-brimming with wisdom (however inexperienced they may be), that they take every offer of advice as a personal insult, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.