The Know-it-all

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔎𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔱𝔥 𝔄𝔩𝔩

A “know-it-all” is someone who acts as if their knowledge is superior, even when they may not have enough evidence or expertise. Psychologically, this can reflect intellectual arrogance, overconfidence, and a lack of intellectual humility.

-American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Overconfidence. In APA dictionary of psychology.-

“Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.”

-spoken by Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5.-

In logical terms, the only possibility of “knowing it all” is to be All.

For if one stood apart from All to know it, then All would not be All at all.

-quote from “Not the know-it-all”-

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Who is this know-it-all

I aspire to be?

Perhaps not that,

As I refuse to see

The ultimate goal

Of the “need-to-know.”

If I knew it all, what would I be?

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Can there be a mathematical

And logical way to be,

Progressively,

A someone that learns to see

More and more,

To finally be

The One that sees?

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The answer lies

In the gap that hides

Between “to know and to be,”

If there is a gap indeed…

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“To know, or not to know,”

I should have known

Where the story was going,

What it is to be…

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To be what I know

Has been the way to be,

But to know what I be

Could describe the All indeed.

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The be-all and the end-all

Would be plain to see

If you could see All

Without being All,

And I guess that is the thing…

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To know-it-all,

You’d have to be All,

All that you are

And All that you see.

Only One way to be.

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Indeed…