Quotes about Perception
Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
- Proverbs 30:24
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
Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.
- Ecclesiastes 7:21
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
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:
- Ecclesiastes 9:13
Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.
- Ecclesiastes 10:3
on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
- Ecclesiastes 12:3
I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
- Song of Solomon 1:5
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
- Isaiah 5:20
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Isaiah 6:9
“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
- Isaiah 8:12