Advice (n.) is thought enough to put a person on the right track — you have only to tell him he ought to do something; but whether he can or will is another matter, and nothing is achieved by telling.
Advice (n.) when followed can dispel the intense darkness that precedes the coming of the light.
Advice (n.) is about as characteristic of modern psychotherapy as bandaging is of modern surgery.
Advice (n.) fails at the decisive question: when the patient asks "What shall I do?", the honest doctor doesn't know either.
Advice (n.) presumes we know enough about another's destiny, however reasonable it is — yet very often we do not know what is best even for ourselves.
Advice (n.) cannot solve a neurotic conflict, which usually admits of none; the patient wants authoritative advice mainly to shuffle off responsibility onto a higher authority.