It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it  A. A. Hodge quotes It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. William Arthur Ward quotes If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison quotes Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine quotes Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell quotes A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. Michel de Montaigne quotes All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. Winston Churchill quotes Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton quotes I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates quotes The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account. Richard R. Grant quotes | 
