Quotes About Counsel

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To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance. (Proverbs 1:5, NIV) The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. (Proverbs 12:15, NIV) Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. (Proverbs 15:22, NIV) Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. (Proverbs 19:20, NIV)

It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear—and we just don't want to hear it.

While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.

Good council has no price.

I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

The advice he reads in Ann Landers – good advice as long as you don't need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don't have any use for it.

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

You will guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. – Psalm 73:24

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.

You imported a master strategist, you'd better listen to what he has to say.

He never told us what to do or not to do.

I warned him many times. I warned him in words, in deed and in every possible way.

agent. My testimony would have been automatically suspect, even years later. I would have been a defense counsel's wet dream. As in, Special Agent, please tell us about the bribe you can't prove you didn't take. So I would have joined

No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.