The Good, the bad and the down right ugly

Tonight I heard it said that "goats have to be herded & driven with whips whilst sheep hear and follow after the voice of their Shepherd/Master". Which one are you might I ask? And for myself I can truthfully say that I must be a combination of the two. I'm all for listening and following someone else's advice that I deem to be good, but I stray away if I detect a half truth or a deceptively proud spirit. For me there are two types of wisdom; One that's from above, and one that's from below. The wisdom from above produces a sense of peace inwardly whilst the other does not. And a tell tale sign of which wisdom you are following will be the end results which I refer to as "the fruits".
Hmm now those "fruits" could very well work out to be bankruptcy for instance whereby every employee of a business follows blindly down the same road without questioning the wisdom of those at the top! For the US they have been there and done that and now many people far and wide are having to suffer as a result.