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Quotes About Counsel

no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!
~ Lewis Carroll
What I heard and saw was a charge to declare his Holy Word in all the wisdom of its counsel and wonder of its strength. It was an invitation to remake the human language in the image if the divine rather than strip the Word of God of its divinity to make it human.
~ Lisa Bevere
Scriptures are as 'helping problem'. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
~ Dada Bhagwan
For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.
~ Albert Einstein
İlgisiz bilgi ve istenmemiş tavsiye madeniydi.
~ Aldous Huxley
Spode hurried away for counsel to Badgery House. Lord Badgery surprisingly rose to the occasion. Ask Boreham to come and see me, he told the footman, who answered his ring. Boreham was one of those immemorial butlers who linger on, generation after generation, in the houses of the great. He was over eighty now, bent, dried up, shrivelled with age.
~ Aldous Huxley
usually better to seek the advice of a stranger—not just any stranger, of course, as one could hardly go out onto the street and confide in the first person one encountered, but a stranger whom you knew to be wise.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
when people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of universal application, but one which most people knew little or nothing about.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting. I have nothing to give you, my son, but fifteen crowns, my horse, and the counsels you have just heard.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
~ Euripides
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety" (Proverbs 11:14 NKJV).
~ Jim Burns
You have been with your counsel and I have been with mine. Believe me that the counsel of my Lord will be accomplished and will stand, and this counsel of yours will perish.
~ Joan of Arc
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. PSALM 32:8
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. PSALM 1:1 – 3
~ Anne Graham Lotz
We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.
~ Andrew Cuomo
I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
~ Michael Bloomberg
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
~ Aeschylus
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.
~ Carol Roth
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
~ Monica Seles