Quotes about Understanding
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
So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:16
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15
It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
- Ecclesiastes 7:5
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
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
- Ecclesiastes 7:27
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
Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
- Ecclesiastes 8:5