Quotes with counsel

  • Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
  • There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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  • Confucius A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Walter Benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • David Seabury Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Doris Lessing Better Counsel comes overnight.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Seneca Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Bacon He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Edgar A. Guest I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abigail Van Buren It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • George Chapman Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Andrew Jackson Never take counsel of your fears.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Ben Johnson No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bram Stoker Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
    Dracula (1897) Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Carol Roth 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
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Aeschylus Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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