Quotes about Wisdom
Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.
- Ecclesiastes 7:21
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
- Ecclesiastes 7:23
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
- Ecclesiastes 7:27
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
- Ecclesiastes 7:28
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:29
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
- Ecclesiastes 8:1
Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
- Ecclesiastes 8:3
Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
- Ecclesiastes 8:5
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
- Ecclesiastes 8:7
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
- Ecclesiastes 8:12