Quotes About Knowledge

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.

“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A manís wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.

Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its masterís manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaohís wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”