Diversity makes you more confident in your beliefs, to better understand your choices and actions.  Define knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Does one seem more prevalent than another in your mind? What have famous thinkers/philosophers said about this in the past? Today? Knowledge by acquaintance is knowledge acquired through action (experiences), while knowledge by description is knowledge acquired through written or spoken words (facts/statements). I personally believe that knowledge by acquaintance is more popular because experience teaches you your strengths and weaknesses. Everything has pros and cons, so both knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description are important to better understand our surroundings. For example, to understand micromatter such as DNA, we need knowledge through description, since we are limited to acquiring such knowledge through experience. On the other hand, when we conduct a scientific experiment we understand the concept better rather than just reading about it. As mentioned above, I prefer knowledge by knowledge, but without knowledge by description I would have very limited knowledge. Both types of knowledge