Anyone know the origin/proper phrasing for the proverb, "Increase your wisdom, increase your suffering."

[yllus]

I may have it worded completely wrong but I think I captured the essence. I'd also like to know where it came from.

 

[FoBoT]

this seems related, maybe, but talks about compassion and not suffering
http://www.taoism.net/theway/wisdom.htm

 

[jagec]

That would be the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 1.

12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

15 What is twisted cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.

16 I thought to myself, "Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge." 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: jagec
That would be the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 1.

12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

15 What is twisted cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.

16 I thought to myself, "Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge." 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.

damn you for imparting more knowledge on me.

 

[Turin39789]

i.e - ignorance is bliss? I'm pretty sure thats been around since before we started writing.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

damn you for imparting more knowledge on me.

Ironic, isn't it?

 

[child of wonder]

Interesting.

The passage makes sense, however.

It seems the smarter and more wise people become, the more of an outcast one becomes as one finds things more trivial and meaningless in the grand scheme of things and as "normal" people shun them.