Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it. Knowledge is easy to him who discerns.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all straight talk to him who understands. It is proper to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is near the one who understands. But the eyes of a fool are far away at the ends of the earth.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes that I may observe wonderful things from your law.
Psalm 119:98-100
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool (stupid person) does not like understanding when revealing his thoughts.
Proverbs 26:12
See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 8:20
They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.
Jeremiah 8:9
Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.
Matthew 6:22-23
The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light.
Matthew 11:25-27
Then Jesus prayed: I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36)
Matthew 13:11-12
He responded: You are allowed to know the divine secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not for others to know. (The Greek word for you is plural and is applied to the disciples as a group.)
Romans 1:21-28
for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.
Romans 9:31-32
But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If any man thinks he knows any thing, he really knows nothing, according to what he ought to know.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.
2 Peter 3:3-5
Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,