Comment: Snowden’s wording closely echoes Michael Polanyi’s earlier insight that “we know more than we can tell.” Polanyi was making much the same point many years before: that much of what we know is tacit, embodied in experience, and not easily put into words. See Polanyi’s quote here.We always know more than we can say, and we will always say more than we can write down.
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