Good advice is rarer than rubies.
Interpretation
Good advice is precious and hard to find.
This quote suggests that wise counsel is extremely valuable, akin to the rarity of rubies. In a world where opinions and advice abound, the true gems of insight that can guide us are rare and should be cherished when found.
In practice
During a team meeting, to emphasize the importance of seeking expert opinions.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.
Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
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