A wise man once said that if he were to be locked away in a dungeon cell with only a Bible and a candle to read it by, he would still know what is going on in the outside world.
Could you tell us who said that. Not to put you on the spot, just interested.
A little like the non Biblical phrase from the poet William Carlos Williams:
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
From Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (1955)
The Bible is still better.