Ecclesiastes is a Breeze

" For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow."

Many say that to enjoy one's life is to live it to the fullest, which is a positive take on how our time on Earth should be spent. The book of Ecclesiastes, on the other hand, has a much more realist attitude. The way I distinct the meanings of "wisdom" and "knowledge" is that wisdom is acquired after a large variety of experiences while knowledge is merely acquired through education; in other words, wisdom is acquired by that specific person while knowledge is acquired through the teachings of others. Wouldn't "living life to the fullest" imply that one would have more life experiences, thus acquiring wisdom? I was under the impression that enjoying life for all that it is would make someone happy, not fill them with grief. The logic of the allotted quote seems very backwards and quite pessimistic. I think that living in a state of constant fear of obtaining knowledge and wisdom would be more detrimental to one's mental well-being than embracing the inevitable. After Malcolm X returned from his trek of Mecca, he was much more enlightened and at peace and was more accepting of white people. He wasn't depressed, grievous, or sorrowful; this was a major turnaround considering the radical and, at times, militant tactics that Malcolm X preached during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. This example disproves all of the negative connotations that the quote from Ecclesiastes created for knowledge and wisdom.