Advising Quotes 

A scientist has the additional responsibility that comes with being a specialist: explaining science to the public, advising of its usefulness and benefits, and warning of its dangers and disadvantages. This is the responsibility of any specialist.
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I am advising the former President, the governor of Florida and the President of the United States. I guess you could say I rule the world.


— 2003  On her political power. Quoted in Newsweek, 31 Mar.

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He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave , was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves.

Plutarch

— Of Bashfulness; on Zeno.

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But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

john godfrey saxe

— "Early Rising".

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Seneca, in advising retirement, had also warned of dangers. In a dialogue called “On Tranquility of Mind,” he wrote that idleness and isolation could bring to the fore all the consequences of having lived life in the wrong way, consequence that people usually avoided by keeping busy that is, by continuing to live life in the wrong way.


— pp. 29-30 (How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010))

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My friend Reg Murphy, now publisher of the Baltimore Sun, has a sign behind his desk advising those who would take on the press that it is never wise to do battle with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.


— Griffin B. Bell, Ronald J. Ostrow, Taking Care of The Law (1982), p. 205.

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Seneca , in advising retirement, had also warned of dangers. In a dialogue called “On Tranquility of Mind,” he wrote that idleness and isolation could bring to the fore all the consequences of having lived life in the wrong way, consequence that people usually avoided by keeping busy that is, by continuing to live life in the wrong way.


— Sarah Bakewell, How to Live (2010), pp. 29-30

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He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave , was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves.


— Of Bashfulness; on Zeno.

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Such things taught he, though advising above all things to speak the truth, for this alone deifies men. For as he had learned from the Magi , who call God Oremasdes, God's body is light, and his soul is truth. He taught much else, which he claimed to have learned from Aristoclea at Delphi.


— Porphyry of Tyre, as translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie in The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy (1919); also quoted in The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic Philosophy (2004) by Algis Uzdavinys
— Unsourced variant: Speak the truth in all situations.

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