Knowledge in Lord of the Flies is not true to the saying "knowledge is power". Those who possess knowledge meet untimely ends like Simon and Piggy. Even Ralph, who follows Piggy's logic and rationality is hunted.
Lord of the Flies Quotes about Knowledge
"'I've been thinking,' he said, 'about a clock. We could make a sundial. We could put a stick in the sand, and then -' The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great." (page 67).
"His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. " (page 74).
"There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense." (page 75).
"Ralph moved impatiently. The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. And then the occasion slipped by so that you had to grab at a decision. This made you think; because thought was a valuable thing, that got results .... " (page 84).
"Piggy could think. He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another. " (page 84).
"'Grown-ups know things,' said Piggy. 'They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss." (page 101).
"Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain." (page 142).
"Ralph considered this and understood. He was vexed to find how little he thought like a grown-up" (page 153).
"Ralph dredged in his fading knowledge of the world." (page 179).