Definition of Counsel

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Counsel

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.

Result of consultation; advice; instruction.

Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.

A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.

One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.

To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.

To advise or recommend, as an act or course.

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Counsel Quotations

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil Gibran

I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

Counsel Translations

counsel in Afrikaans is advies, aanraai, raad
counsel in Dutch is adviseren, bekendmaken, aankondigen
counsel in Finnish is neuvoa
counsel in French is conseiller, conseil
counsel in German is Beratung, Ratschlag
counsel in Italian is consiglio
counsel in Portuguese is conselhos, conselho, aconselhar
counsel in Spanish is aconsejar, consejo

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