Quotes About Knowledge

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

Yet they say to God: ëLeave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Yet you say: ëWhat does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.

No bird of prey knows that path; no falconís eye has seen it.

Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?