Knowledge and Knowing "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." — Lao Tzu. Knowledge is information acquired from external sources. Knowing, on the other hand, emerges from within and determines how facts are comprehended. Knowledge has no value without knowing while knowing can exist without knowledge. A child knows how to recognise parents, communicate and play without any formal instructions. Village wisdom knows the right time to sow plants, or cure with herbs, without knowledge of botany or biology, relying on collective memory and connection to nature. Most of us know how to change a light bulb or operate a computer without knowledge of how electricity if produced or how binary technology works. In Europe knowledge gained priority over knowing around the scientific revolution of the 17 th C establishing rational knowledge as superior to subjective experience. Other civilisations such as those of India or...