“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”

Civilization is Civilism

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Isolation is the worst possible counselor." by Miguel de Unamuno?
Miguel de Unamuno photo
Miguel de Unamuno 199
19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

Related quotes

Fernando Pessoa photo

“Liberty is the possibility of isolation.”

Ibid., p. 246
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento.

John Kenneth Galbraith photo

“The advisers and counselors were not, however, analyzing the danger or even the possibility. They were serving only as the custodians of bad memories.”

Chapter IX https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Cause and Consequence, Section V, p 184
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

Diane Ackerman photo
Hannah Arendt photo
Charles Baudelaire photo
Alexandre Dumas photo

“Haste is a poor counselor”

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Fausto Cercignani photo

“Sometimes moderation is a bad counselor.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

Pericles photo

“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”

Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens

As quoted in Until Tomorrow Comes (1979) by Orville E. Kelly, p. 160

“The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

El frío es un buen consejero, pero es frío.
Voces (1943)

“The worst possible time to invest is when the skies are the clearest.”

William J. Bernstein (1948) economist

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 2, Measuring The Beast, p. 66.

Related topics