What are Voltaire's views on knowledge?

Question: What are Voltaire's views on knowledge!?
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Voltaire perceived the French bourgeoisie to be too small and ineffective, the aristocracy to be parasitic and corrupt, the commoners as ignorant and superstitious, and the church as a static force useful only as a counterbalance since its "religious tax" or the tithe helped to create a strong backing for revolutionaries!.
Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses!. To Voltaire, only an enlightened monarch or an enlightened absolutist, advised by philosophers like himself, could bring about change as it was in the king's rational interest to improve the power and wealth of his subjects and kingdom!. Voltaire essentially believed enlightened despotism to be the key to progress and change!.
He was deeply opposed to the use of war and violence as means for the resolution of controversies, as he repeatedly and forcefully stated in many of his works, including the "Philosophical Dictionary," where he described war as an "infernal enterprise" and those who resort to it "ridiculous murderers!." He also believed that Africans were a separate species, inferior to the Europeans, and that ancient Jews were "an ignorant and barbarous people" drawing examples of this from the Old Testament!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know, but If I wanted to know I would read some of his stuff!.Www@QuestionHome@Com