Jeopardy Measuring Cup

The wisest of the wise may err. - Aeschylus

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Tennyson

What the wise seek is in themselves. - Confucius

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

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

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

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

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

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

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

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

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

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

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

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cousins

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

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

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

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Albert Einstein

The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off. - Tacitus

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

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. - Frederick Schiller

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. - Portuguese Proverb

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

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

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

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

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

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

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. - Sara Teasdale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world. - Helen Keller

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

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

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

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. - Chinese Proverb

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. - Unknown

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

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

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

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - Moliere

Happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency - the currency by which we take measure of our lives. - Tal Ben-Shahar

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. - Mary Parker Follett

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