We must distinguish judging from guessing.

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.

Your true intentions is a reflection of your character.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint, ' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

Everything you encounter is your life.

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent