Knowing About the Person vs. Knowing Him

"Someone said, 'You can pile up your training and add your degrees until finally you may totter with a cane across the last academic platform of your life, but that doesn't necessarily assure you of spiritual knowledge.' Certain knowledge comes only through the ministry of the Spirit, through God's Word.  Such knowledge comes not through just knowing about a Person, but through knowing Him."

G. Raymond Carlson, "How Does The Spirit Guide Our Lives", in "Questions and Answers About The Holy Spirit."