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.
(“The Kitáb-i-Íqán” (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1983),
pp. 145–146) [10]