1262 verses about Learning

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

I teach you today, even you, So that your trust may be in Yahweh.

Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise”; but it was far from me.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?