Quotes About Counsel

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

If you need a few tips on coping, ask me now.

The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, "Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Judge not, then, the karmic path walked by another. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. Call not a thing calamity, nor joyous event, until you decide, or witness, how it is used. For is a death a calamity if it saves the lives of thousands? And is a life a joyous event if it has caused nothing but grief? Yet even this you should not judge, but keep always your own counsel, and allow others theirs.

A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but only when he wishes and not when others wish; he ought rather to discourage every one from offering advice unless he asks it; but, however, he ought to be a constant inquirer, and afterwards a patient listener concerning the things of which he inquired; also, on learning that any one, on any consideration, has not told him the truth, he should let his anger be felt.

Por eso hay que concluir que los buenos consejos, vengan de quien vengan, han de nacer de la prudencia del príncipe, y no la prudencia del príncipe de los buenos consejos.

Dobre rady powinny wynika? z m?dro?ci ksi?cia, a nie m?dro?? ksi?cia z dobrych rad

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Elva just stared, a wise conversational technique that I recommend in a great many situations.