You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.

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.

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.