Knowledge vs. Belief — What's the Difference?

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts (descriptive knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from many sources, including but not limited to perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice.

A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term "belief" to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false.

Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another

Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation

Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something

Sexual intercourse.

Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons.

The state or fact of knowing

Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study

Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

(countable) Something believed.

(Archaic) Carnal knowledge.

(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

(uncountable) Religious faith.

Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

(philosophical) Justified true belief

The thing believed; the object of belief.

Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.

Any cognitive content held as true

The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

(obsolete) Acknowledgement.

(obsolete) Notice, awareness.

The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; - chiefly used in the plural.

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

Sexual intercourse; - usually preceded by carnal; same as carnal knowledge.

To acknowledge.

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning