Symbolism In 'Beware The Man With Only One Book'

The quote “Beware the man with only one book” is stating how you need to be cautious of the man how only knows one way to do things. The book symbolizes his knowledge. You need to be careful of the man with only knowledge from “one book” because it's going to either be his way or no way. This type of man is not going to understand why you do things differently than him. Therefore, around this man your way is always going to be wrong. He also has not been exposed to the diversity of the world around him, often referred to as a closed minded person. The quote states to beware, this is said because he battles with the ways you do things compared to the way he does them this can become irritating and dangerous to you in the grand scheme