Wise Counsel Quotes

“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

“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, Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth

“Thaddeus kept his own council, but at the end of the second week, it was eating at him. Adopting a casual tone, he asked Eve, “Where’s Esmeralda been?”
Eve looked up from her reading. “She’s around. She came by yesterday.”
Thaddeus stroked his chin and said, “Hmm, I haven’t seen her.”
Eve returned her attention to her book but added softly, “She’s growing up, Thaddeus. Perhaps that crush she’s always had on you has finally run its course.”
It was the most personal observation she ever made to him, and he caught the significance. Not bothering to deny her words, he said, “One can only hope that it has.”
“Can one?” She stood, for once ready to retire before she fell asleep in her chair. “I think to be loved by anyone is special, Thaddeus. You’d do well not to wish it away.” She patted his shoulder. “Good night." —Thaddeus ben Todd and Eve ben Medford”
― Staci Morrison, M4-Sword of the Spirit