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Knowledge Quotes by Michael Polanyi
- The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
- We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such…
- I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
- 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…
- I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our…
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- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
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- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius