Unheeded Advice Quotes

What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

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

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

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.

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

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.

Advice when most needed is least heeded

To try to help somebody who doesn't want to be helped is ludicrous. It doesn't work.

The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice.

The Titanic was a great ship, but is was captained by one depicted as being arrogant, and warnings of an iceberg were not heeded. America is like that great ship. Unfortunately, at the helm may be a proud captain. And black people could become the iceberg that causes the sinking of this great ship called the United States of America.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

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

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

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 worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me my parents lied. I yelled at him for it. He forgave me. He told me vampires were killers. I told him they weren’t, even after one stalked Raquel. He told me Charity was dangerous. I didn’t listen, and she killed Courtney. He told me vampires were treacherous, and did I get the message? Not until my illusions had been destroyed by my parents’ confession.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.