Noun

The Knowledge

1. A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.
   • 2004, Robert S. Wayne, Royal London in Context: The Independent Traveler's Guide to Royal London, page 177:

     The drivers of the officially licensed "black cabs" are famous for their mastery of "The Knowledge" of London streets.

Quotations

• For more examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief". There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories.

Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject with the ability to use it for a specific purpose if appropriate. See Knowledge Management for additional details on that discipline.

Knowledge is what is known; the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.

Sourced

Alphabetized by author or work.

• Knowledge is discovered, when ignorance is lost.
  • Jason F. Klein, "As life is written", Sonoma State University (1992)

• Knowledge is good.
  • Motto of Faber College, in Animal House (1978)

• Knowledge is power.
  • Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597) "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]

• I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
  • Francis Bacon, letter to Lord Burleigh, 1592

• Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
  • The Bible (KJV), Proverbs 24:3-4

• A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
  • Witter Bynner, The Way of Life (1944)

• You can't manage knowledge — nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied.
  • Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, Learning to Fly - Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations (2005), Chapter 2, pages 24-25.

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