And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man —whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.Plato
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When people try to say that they have found a man who knows all areas of knowledge, they usually show a great lack in themselves in the area of knowledge. Very often, when someone proclaims that he or she has found a man who knows everything, it is because the person has not been able to understand this claim in the first place.
Source: The Republic
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