Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A silent man is easily reputed wise. - Frederick W Robertson

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Francis Bacon

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. - Unknown

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. - Aeschylus

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish

A wise traveler never despises his own country. - Carlo Goldoni

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men. - Cato

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. - Unknown

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. - Michel de Montaigne

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kadar

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. - Chen Guangcheng

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. - Lin Yutang

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

It is the province of knowledge to speak. It is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Christine Lane

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. - Andy Warhol

I measure my own success as a leader by how well the people who work for me succeed. - Maria Shi

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. - C S Lewis

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongue. - Old Testament

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato

I'd have thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I didn't have a tape measure. - Groucho Marx

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. - Chinese Proverb

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. - Andrew Jackson

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. - Marilyn Monroe

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. - E W Howe

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George S Patton

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John S Mill

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place. - Ravi Zacharias

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. - Hal Borland

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

Happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency - the currency by which we take measure of our lives. - Tal Ben-Shahar

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. - Francis Bacon

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

Q: When is the perfect time?
A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder

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 Hodge