If he is inflated with a sense of knowledge, he has not got on the right track for true knowledge. Humility is essential. If any man love God. Love, too, is a source of true knowledge. It is he who loves God who knows him.
Love is the means of obtaining the true knowledge, the highest knowledge.
We know that an idol is nothing. Not a god, not even a living being. Only wood, stone, or metal. Though there be that are called gods. The heathen world worshiped many false gods.