Consider, how can he that faileth in the day of God’s
Revelation to attain unto the grace of the “Divine Presence” and to recognize
His Manifestation, be justly called learned, though he may have spent aeons in
the pursuit of knowledge, and acquired all the limited and material learning of
men? It is surely evident that he can in no wise be regarded as possessed of
true knowledge. Whereas, the most unlettered of all men,
if he be honoured with this supreme distinction, he verily is accounted as one
of those divinely-learned men whose knowledge is of God; for such a man hath
attained the acme of knowledge, and hath reached the furthermost summit of
learning.
- Baha’u’llah (The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
