Knowledge Types Quotes

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

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.

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.