"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we
didn't." -- Erica Jong
didn't." -- Erica Jong
Related:
- 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...
From the same category:
- The golden rule is that there are no golden
rules. ... - We cannot forgive, because that means forgetting also.
If we forget, then we're doomed, because the past will... - The discontented man finds no easy
chair. ... - Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark... - If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal. ...
