Implicit Knowledge Quotes

We know more than we can tell.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

When you've had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don't have to do anything to prove to anybody that you've had that relationship. It just exists.

We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

Anything that we know how we do, machines will do better. Now, the key element of this phrase is, "We know how we do it." Because we do many things without knowing exactly how we do them. So this is the area where machines are vulnerable, because it still has to learn from some kind of experience. It needs something - at least the rules of the game. You have to bring in something that will help the machine to start learning. It's like square one. If there's nothing there, if you can't explain it, that's a problem.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

Why?' - Nasuada 'You know why' - Murtagh

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.