Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

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

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

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. - Sallust

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

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

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

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

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

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

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

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

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

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

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fool doth think he is wise, but the 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

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. - Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

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

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

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstov

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth. - Harriet King

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

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

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

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. - Anne Bradstreet

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

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

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 simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at how many want in... and how many want out. - Tony Blair

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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