What does this quote mean?????

Question

no man knows less than the man who knows it all

Answer 1

it means the more you learn the less you know, like the more things about history you know the more questions you have about what you know.

Answer 2

ummm this is what it is kind of saying

a person  who never even knew the game basketball existed they wouldnt ask any questions

if a person just learned that the game basketball exists then they will ask question about its rules.

Answer 3

The more you know, the more there is you don't know.

Like as you learn more, you find out there is still a lot of things you don't know.

Answer 4

It means that in expanding the field of knowledge we increase the horizon of ignorance.  For every answer you receive more questions will arise. As you learn more, you gain a greater awareness of what else there is left to learn, and you accept that you will always be ignorant of more than you would like.  

I think Socrates would have liked the quote - as he supposedly said "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

The knowledge that we have can be analogous to a circle. Inside the circle is what we know and what we call knowledge; outside the circle is what we don't know and need to explore. As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. So the more we know, the more we feel that we don't know.

If we know more and more about less and less, a corollary is that we also know less and less about more and more of what is known.

The man, who knows the most, is aware of how much he does not know, it can also be interpreted that if you claim to be a wise man it surely means that you know very little.

Answer 5

It pretty much means once you have one question answered you have even more questions, some of which will probably never be answered depending on the topic. Have you ever felt that way? You have an original question and once that is answered you have three more questions about the answer you had just gotten? that's pretty much it.