Counsel Quotes

The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. (Benjamin Franklin)
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' View quote
Winston Churchill
Here thou, great Anna whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea. View quote
Alexander Pope
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
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! View quote
George S. Patton
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. View quote
George S. Patton
Never take counsel from your fears. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. View quote
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. View quote
Francis Bacon
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. (Elihu Root)
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. View quote
Christopher Lasch
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home. View quote
Cicero
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think. View quote
Jimmy Wales
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. View quote
Seneca
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. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Joan Rivers
A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction. (Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words. View quote
George Chapman
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth. View quote
Esaias Tegnér
All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction. View quote
John Calvin
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