Quotes About Counsel

Who has vocation hears the voice of the inner man; he is called. And so it is the legendary belief that he possesses a private demon who counsels him and whose mandates he must execute.

There's nothing more annoying than good advice from someone who makes a lot of bad decisions.

Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime's shoulder. "When this battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but … well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Take not counsel of your fears

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

A word to the wise is sufficient.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Night is the mother of counsels.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow oneÂ's own advice.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.