Wise Counselors Quotes

#1. Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

#2. Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

#3. I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands - to eat and survive.

Evangeline Lilly

#4. The guy from the bar appeared silently at Uncle Billy's side, his expression cool and steady. He nodded at me once, and turned to my uncle. Seeing him face-to-face,I knew, absolutely, he wasn't just a regular customer. He was a complicationa. A big one. Mo, meet Colin Donnelly. Your bodyguard.

Erica O'Rourke

#5. The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

Starhawk

#7. 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#8. It was a city that had been built just to be abandoned, in which all the fears and madnesses and revulsions of the creatures who built it were made into stone.

Neil Gaiman

#9. When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

Yehuda Berg

#10. People are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.

Dan Ariely

#11. The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.

Morihei Ueshiba

#12. All poets are religious poets.

Marty Rubin

#13. What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path from larger day to huger night, a little death when the mind was still alive and fluttering. Thus

Martin Amis

#14. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

#15. Girls are good at running away. It's a fact.

Karen Foxlee

#16. There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Beth Broderick

#17. Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Deepak Chopra

#18. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.

Stella McCartney