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

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -
  Erica...
• Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but
  want a different one...
• We hear and apprehend only what we already
  half know...
• When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
  Marquis de...
• We ask advice, but we mean approbation. --
  Charles Caleb...
• What we wish,
  that we readily believe. --...
• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -
  or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do...
• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become,
  do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds...