Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

En el mundo uno encuentra con mayor frecuencia el consejo que el consuelo.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

If you don't know what to do with an answer, don't ask the question.

The problem is taking any one person’s advice too seriously. Ideally, asking advice should be like echolocation. Bounce ideas off of all of your surroundings, and listen to all the echoes to get the whole picture.

Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

If we don't know what we want we're less likely to get it.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.