knowledge
experience

Here, There, and Everywhere

It is generally assumed that knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief.

In another sense, experience refers not to the conscious events themselves but to the knowledge they produce. For this sense, it is important that the knowledge comes about through direct perceptual contact with the external world. That the knowledge is direct means that it was obtained through immediate observation, i.e. without involving any inference. One may obtain all kinds of knowledge indirectly, for example, by reading books or watching movies about the topic. This type of knowledge does not constitute experience of the topic since the direct contact in question concerns only the books and movies but not the topic itself. The objects of this knowledge are often understood as public objects, which are open to observation by most regular people

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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Mahatma Gandhi