Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast

I'd rather be funny than wise. - Dennis Miller

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

Wise is he who collects the wisdom of others. - Juan Guerra Caceras

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson

Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

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

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

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

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

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

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

Can grave and formal pass for wise,
When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin

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

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. - Chris Hart

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

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a 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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. - C S Lewis

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson

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

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

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

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

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. - The Bible

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

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

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

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. - Albert Einstein

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. - Eric Ericksen

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

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 man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

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

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. - Mary Parker Follett

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Lord Francis Bacon