@Nancy88,
Its a mere generalization, it can mean anything.
Not everyone can have all information in the world or all power.
So why say it then?
His form of justifying the 'crap' that happens everywhere... If the world was all bunnies and love he might have said 'bumbles into a problem'... But the world is not bunnies and love, it is able to know or not.
That people ask, means it sinks in.
My
is not below, though it is 'paltry' in comparison, perhaps.