To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

"I have come for advice."
"That is easily got."
"And help."
"That is not always so easy."

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

the giving of good advice is a great means of gaining men's affections,

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

- I have come for advice.
- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.

#The Five Orange Pips

New research shows that advice seeking is a surprisingly effective strategy for exercising influence when we lack authority.

Be open to suggestion, no one is so perfect that they may not need advice from time to time.

Ask funders for money, and they’ll give you advice; but ask for advice, and they’ll give you money.

The problem is taking any one person’s advice too seriously. Ideally, asking advice should be like echolocation. Bounce ideas off of all of your surroundings, and listen to all the echoes to get the whole picture.

Give advice to others, then follow it yourself.

When fortune smiles at them, the majority of men, even if quite unversed in affairs, are so abounding in wisdom that any advice offered to them is regarded as an affront, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, begging for advice from any quarter, and then there is no counsel so foolish, absurd or vain which they will not follow

Always ask for advice but never take it.

Good advice is embodied.