It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be…

“The past makes a good bishop but a poor king…it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it.…

— Richard Paul Evans

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

— Mark Dever

“Plans succeed through good counsel; don’t go to war without the advice of others.”

— Al Fike

“Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me.”

— Marjane Satrapi

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

— Sallust

“...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.”

— Richard Ford

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with…

— Thucydides

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

— Confucius

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err…

— Hunter S. Thompson

People who are artists, they want their music, their art, their acting craft to get out. And once it's appreciated, that seems to be,…

— Michael Wright

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good…

— Francis Bacon

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

— Demosthenes

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

— Aeschylus