Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

A wise man once said nothing. - Unknown

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

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

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. - Scottish Proverb

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

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself. - Mary Roach

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

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

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

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kadar

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

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

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

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

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. - Mark Twain

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

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 word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

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

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

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. - Admiral Richard Byrd

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

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

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size is a dwarf in more articles than one. - Laurence Stern

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang-Po

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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 ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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