If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

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.

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

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.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

Every so often, push your luck.

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.