Francis Bacon Counsel Quotations

Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest

In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great

The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.