Advice Is What We Ask For When We Already Know The Answer But Wish We Didn't." -- Erica Jong

Advice Is What We Ask For When We Already Know The Answer But Wish We Didn't." -- Erica Jong

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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we
didn't." -- Erica Jong

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong
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 LaGrange
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. -- Charles Caleb Colto
What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthene
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 not know.
-- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...
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 with our desire.
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