Ernest Sosa Quotes

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

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• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Important
  • House
  • Reading

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Twitter

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • Black
  • Colors

• Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Sometimes
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Think
  • Want

• I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Books
  • Scary

• I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Famous

• I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hair

• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Thoughts

• Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World

• I am actually a very gentle person.

  

  Charlie Trotter

• I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Different
  • Identity

• I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

  

  Emma Caulfield
  • Life

• The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Concept
  • Megachurch
  • Attituded

• In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Knowledge

• One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Knowledge
  • Fall
  • Cutting

• Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Creatures

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

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Competence
  • Metaphysical