Quotes about Wisdom
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15
I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
- Ecclesiastes 1:16
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
- Ecclesiastes 1:18
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
- Ecclesiastes 2:2
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3
So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:9
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
- Ecclesiastes 2:12
And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:
- Ecclesiastes 2:13
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14