Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of
counsellers there is safety.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of
counsellers there is safety.

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
[Lat., read more

Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
[Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,
Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about read more

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.