Quotes About Wisdom

The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.

He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,

for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel

by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Listen, my son, to your fatherís instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,