Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 12:1
He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.
Psalm 119:34
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,
Proverbs 9:9
Give opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 10:10
He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 12:13
A wicked man is snared by the transgression of [his] lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.
Proverbs 18:6-7
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.
Matthew 7:24-25
Therefore every man, whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.