Counsel Quote by Seneca the Younger

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

— Dale Carnegie

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no…

— Haile Selassie

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

— Seneca the Younger

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

— Seneca the Younger

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to…

— Baltasar Gracian

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by…

— George Sutherland

I was fortunate to benefit from Secretary Shultz's advice and counsel when I served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan.

— Bill Hagerty

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

— Anonymous

“You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

— Umar