Quotes about Understanding
“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
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 8:15
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.
— Ecclesiastes 8:17
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:
— Ecclesiastes 9:13
A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
— Ecclesiastes 10:2
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
— Ecclesiastes 10:14
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
— Ecclesiastes 11:5
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
— Ecclesiastes 12:9
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
— Isaiah 1:3
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
— Isaiah 5:13