Proverbs 14:6
A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but learning comes easily to someone who understands.
Proverbs 8:9
Everything I say is sensible to someone who understands, and correct to those who have acquired knowledge.
Proverbs 17:24
A person with understanding has wisdom as his objective, but a fool looks only to earthly goals.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes so that I will observe amazing things from your instruction.
Psalm 119:98-100
Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool finds no satisfaction in trying to understand, for he would rather express his own opinion.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man who is wise in his own opinion? There's more hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 8:20
for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men will be put to shame. They'll be dismayed and taken captive. Look, they have rejected the message from the LORD! So what kind of wisdom do they have?
Matthew 6:22-23
"The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
Matthew 11:25-27
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.
Matthew 13:11-12
He answered them, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom from heaven, but it hasn't been given to them,
Romans 1:21-28
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel, who pursued righteousness based on the Law, did not achieve the Law.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it.
James 1:5
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to everyone generously without a rebuke, and it will be given to him.
2 Peter 3:3-5
First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us