Knowledge is not even in direct proportion to being.

There may be great knowledge of chemistry in a man who is a rather poor _being_: and those who _know_, even in wisdom like Solomon, are often at the end of the matter of living, not at the beginning.

As a matter of fact, David did the living, the dynamic achievement.

To Solomon was left the consummation and the finish, and the dying down.
Yet we _must_ know, if only in order to learn not to know.

The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how _not to know_.