Top 41 Quotes About Wise Counsel
#1. Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the
gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy,
wise counsel.
Sallust
#2. How easy it was to give out morsels of wise counsel, and yet how hard to act on them.
Geraldine Brooks
#3. For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel - to others! - but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.
Albert Einstein
#4. A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5
Stormie O'martian
#5. Without stratagems would a people fall, and deliverance is in a wise counsel.
Michael Bar-Zohar
#6. I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught, "If you always say no to the first temptation, you will not have to worry if you will be able to say no to the second one."
Harold G. Hillam
#7. In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
Michael Crichton
#8. And of course you believed their wise counsel," said Elizabeth lightly, "because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#9. 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.
Hesiod
#10. Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.
Thiruvalluvar
#11. Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.
Eugene H. Peterson
#12. Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?
Robin Hobb
#13. Well Ashley, my dear, there is time for everything," was Armand's wise counsel to his daughter. "In time, Justin will warm up to you. Just be patient." (Chapter 2)
Ryanne Salve
#14. 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.
Hesiod
#15. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#16. The wise need the least advice,
but seek it the most.
The foolish need counsel the most,
but seek it the least.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
Marianne Williamson
#19. The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
#20. Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#21. The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
Benjamin Franklin
#22. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
#23. My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.
Daniel Defoe
#24. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
#25. Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which if held before the eyes
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they:
"Even this shall pass away."
Theodore Tilton
#26. I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. 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.
Joan Rivers
#28. Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus
#29. One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear
and we just don't want to hear it.
Andy Stanley
#30. Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life.
Eugene H. Peterson
#32. It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#33. There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#34. If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)
Aaron Sorkin
#35. Go not to the Elves for counsel,
for they will say both no and yes.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
for advice is a dangerous gift,
even from the wise to the wise,
and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.
Larry Burkett
#37. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
Paul H. Dunn
#38. 'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.
Henry B. Eyring
#39. Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.
Isaac Watts
#41. To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
Woodrow Wilson
