A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.