The best piece of philosophical advice that I've ever been given is that the truth is most powerful and effective when it is presented in it's simplest form. This is in the wisdom of people who are masters of weeding out the excess of words, conditional statements, and attempts to load too much importance into something that can be broken down into it's most basic and simply stated forms.
When highly educated people have to communicate with those who have far less formal education, I was sometimes astounded at the richness and brilliance of the simplest statement: "Well, quit making it hard for yourself and just do it!" Psychologists have spent their lifetimes and have been writing millions of words about that one goal in life.
Later, I found that it is not easy to pass on highly complicated concepts as simple statements with just the facts. The immediate desire was to pile on with higher level or industry language and concepts, to commit logical fallacies and to otherwise appear to be a more elegant thinker, rather than an effective communicator.
Even more sadly, as a news reader or student, I had to spend far more time than necessary in breaking all of that excess down into concepts that could be absorbed and used and when I had to pass those concepts on to others in my work as a manager and leader.
The truth is more powerful when expressed in it's simplest form. Doctors and nurses in the hospital often use the term "pee" to describe the patient's urine output. The patient has died or is dead, not expired or passed on. But doctors and nurses have to work with some of the most complex and detailed linguistic representations for the most complex and difficult concepts in the history of knowledge.
They do not learn these concepts, however, with an excess of unnecessary or new verbiage that has been created for it's own sake. So truth, in the medical setting, can be far too complicated for the lay person to understand, but very easy for any doctor from any part of the world to immediately grasp. At the same time, medical personnel must be able to communicate clearly with the average, far less knowledgeable person. I was more than glad to find that medical sites, such as WebMD now break down complicated medical issues and state the truth in its simplest form for we lay people.
In the social sciences, business, and the law, the overwhelming excess of "new and improved" words used to advance a simple concept, language that attempts to cover every possible angle and condition of a subject, and constant attempts to create new language to describe simple new concepts, makes for a very confusing and time consuming path to the truth.
In the military, I found that writing and communication had to be in the simplest and most mentally digestible form. While there might be specific technical terminology and some archaic forms of speech in formal documents and ceremonies, there is usually no time or use for rhetorical and linguistic embellishments to military instructions, work standards, regulations and orders.
The classic tools of Rhetoric: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, are used by the masters, whether highly educated or with very poor formal education, to make the truth of a matter very difficult to obtain. I learned to identify those tools and to make the truth simple again.
But the truth, in it's most powerful and effective form, is simple. And that is the best philosophical advice that I've ever, in bits and pieces and from many wise sources, ever been given.