Tacit Knowledge Quotes

We know more than we can tell.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

The trouble is that what we colloquially call “intuition” carries no label telling you where it came from. It can be based on expertise built over years. But sometimes it’s a cognitive bias. And sometimes it’s just fear.

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

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.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

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.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

You know more than you know.