238 quotes from Robert Penn Warren: 'Tell me a story of deep delight. Are you looking for famous quotes by Robert Penn Warren? ', 'The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. For it would have been a thing of trifling and contemptible ease for Perfection to create mere perfection. Look no further, check out our ultimate collection of famous quotations by Robert Penn Warren. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. ROBERT PENN WARREN, The New York Times, Dec. 16, 1969 The creation of man whom God in his foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was the awful index of God's omnipotence.