I think Thomas a’ Kempis overstates the matter a bit here, but nevertheless this warning in “The Imitation of Christ” is a helpful reminder for many of us:
HAPPY is he to whom truth manifests itself, not in signs and words that fade, but as it actually is. Our opinions, our senses often deceive us and we discern very little.
What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.
