Jeopardy Measuring Cup

A wise man once said nothing. - Unknown

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

Man is the measure of all things. - Protagoras

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - JRR Tolkien

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

If silence be good for the wise, how much the better for fools. - Talmud

Ceremony: The invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

To acquire knowledge one must study. To acquire wisdom one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he gives the more he has. - Chinese Proverb

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should. - W Edward Deming

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

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

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. - Bill Lemley

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

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

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

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstov

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

Wisdom is the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally. - Vivian Clayton

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

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

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth. - Harriet King

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. - Joseph Addison

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. - Anne Bradstreet

Wise Husband: One who buys his wife such fine china she won't trust him to wash the dishes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T S Eliot

A true measure of a man's worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. - Cullen Hightower

A simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at how many want in... and how many want out. - Tony Blair

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

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

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. - Unknown

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. - P.D. James

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison

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

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

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

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. - Martin Luther

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

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

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison

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