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.

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.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

No man is perfect but God is. What do you think?

It happens to everyone and it happens fast.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

The Lord hereby would make us the more acknowledge His hand, and to see that our help is always in Him

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.