A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

Beware the wounded lioness, for she is a natural hunter.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.