Found 334 Results for: Wise Counsel

• Heart that is wise will prove itself in wise company; ever greedy of wise talk is the ear that knows how to listen. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 31)

• Heart that is wise and discerning will keep clear of wrong, and by honest dealings prosper yet. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 32)

• Withhold not thy counsel while safety may yet be won; thy wisdom is not to be hidden away like a veiled beauty. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 28)

• Wisdom still needs a tongue to disclose it; no discernment or knowledge or shrewd counsel but waits on the apt word; how else should men be encouraged in well doing? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 29)

• True answer and wise answer none can give but he who listens patiently, and learns all. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 13)

• speech uttered was ever the wise man’s passport to fame, the fool’s undoing. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 15)

• My son, give good heed to the warnings of experience, do not spurn this counsel of mine. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 24)

• My son, mark well and learn, take heed and be wise; (Ecclesiasticus 6, 33)

• if wise thou wouldst be, and have the secret of discernment, and live contentedly in the service of the great. (Ecclesiasticus 8, 10)

• Take not counsel with a fool; he knows none but his own way of it. (Ecclesiasticus 8, 20)

• Consider, as best thou mayest, thy company; be wise and prudent men thy counsellors; (Ecclesiasticus 9, 21)

• By skilful handiwork the artist is known, the ruler of a people by the prudence of his counsel, the good sense of the aged by their word spoken. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 24)