Quotes About Counsellors

#1. It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. I would need an awful lot of willpower to fight my way through the ups and downs of the road to recovery, and there might be times when I may feel a bit down and depressed, but there would be counsellors that I could talk to about how I was feeling.

Sue Whitaker

#3. Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Adam Smith

#4. Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

Jane Porter

#5. The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.

Thomas Hughes

#6. All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

Clive Ponting

#7. The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as "swami", "baba" and "guru" are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Who needs psychiatrists? Who needs grief counsellors and life coaches and motivational speakers? Fuck all that! Just stare at the night sky and let yourself get lost in it every now and then.

J.A. Redmerski

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Alex Benson

#10. Your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry
tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

Frances Wright

#11. I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.

Heinrich Harrer

#12. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

Prince Philip

#13. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Thomas Huxley

#14. Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

Edward Coke

#15. He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?

Daryl Gregory

#16. A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

Tecumseh

#17. Being on a galloping camel bears several resemblances to energetic sex with an enormously strong and very ugly woman.

Mark Lawrence

#18. Sometimes troubles make us stronger. We put things in perspective and find priorities.

Gail Gaymer Martin

#19. Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

Phil Ochs

#20. He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.

George Herbert

#21. The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugo Ball

#22. Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

Dhani Harrison

#23. We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.

Scott Borchetta

#24. Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

Eileen Caddy

#25. Be thine own privy counsellor.

Benjamin Disraeli

#26. Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

Amit Ray