A Caution Against Erudition

I am reading the book Numero Zero by Umberto Eco.  The book, while cleverly-written, is a bit slow off the blocks for my taste.  Eco seems to have had more fun writing the book than I am having in reading it.

Nevertheless, I was amused by one comment from the book's narrator, Colonna, a jaded hack journalist:

"Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners.  If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers.  The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong."