Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men to be employed therewith.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
Psalm 111:2
The works of LORD are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in it.
Proverbs 2:2-4
so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding,
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom [is] the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 18:1
He who desires to separate himself seeks excuses, and rages against all sound wisdom.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of a prudent man gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),
Ecclesiastes 12:12
And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
1 Timothy 4:15
Think on these things--exist within these things--so that thy progress may be visible among all.