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Knowing vs Believing - What's the difference?

knowing | believing |

As verbs the difference between knowing and believing

is that knowing is while believing is .

As nouns the difference between knowing and believing

is that knowing is the act or condition of having knowledge while believing is belief.

As an adjective knowing

is possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.

knowing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
  • * South
    • The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
  • Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
    • a knowing rascal
  • Suggestive of private knowledge.
  • Deliberate

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * knowingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or condition of having knowledge.
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
    • Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings .

    believing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • belief
  • * 2004 , Dermot Moran, ?Lester E. Embree, Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (volume 2, page 337)
    • Some believings are believings with simple certainty; others are more or less uncertain; still others are believings with a reassured certainty, perhaps after a time during which they were uncertain.