Quotes about Insight

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,