Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

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

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana

Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Tennyson

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

Wise is the man who knows he has enough. - Unknown

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

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

A flow of words does not mean a flow of wisdom. - Rosalind Ferguson

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cousins

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake. - Gerald Brooks

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

You measure success by how much good you do for others. - Zig Ziglar

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. - Benjamin Franklin

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

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus

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

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

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

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

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. - Epicurus

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

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

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

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

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

It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

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

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quoatations. - Benjamin Disraeli

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome - and you sing well too. - Yiddish Proverb

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

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

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

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas B Macaulay

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 stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

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

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. - Lin-Chi

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

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

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say; a wise man knows whether or not to say it. - Frank M. Garafola

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