Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

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

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

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

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

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

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

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

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

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

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

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

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

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

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

Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it. - Syrus

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

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

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. - Erasmus

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

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tzu

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander

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

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

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

Measure yourself by what you have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. - Francis Bacon

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

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. - Fulton J Sheen

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

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - Unknown

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

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

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

Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom. - Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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

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

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

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose. - William M. Bulger

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

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

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

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

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

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next. - Edmund Gibson

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

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr