Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

The wise speak only of what they know. - Gandalf

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophenes

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

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

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

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

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

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

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. - Spanish Proverb

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

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

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. - Stephen Kinzer

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

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

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

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

If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them. - Yiddish Proverb

Measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. - Unknown

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

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

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn

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

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

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

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

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

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you. - Unknown

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

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

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

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

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold

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 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

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows where it is written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

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

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

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley

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

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

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

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

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou

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