Competence Quotes
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
Bruce Sterling
The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its competence.
Vladimir Putin
Do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of texts, by logic, by inferential reasoning, by reasoned cogitation, by the acceptance of a view after pondering it, by the seeming competence of a speaker, or because you think, ‘The ascetic is our teacher.’4 But when you know for yourselves, ‘These things are unwholesome; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to harm and suffering,’ then you should abandon them.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
Ernest Sosa
I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
Javier Solana
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.
Ernest Sosa
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.
Ernest Sosa
When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.
Ernest Sosa
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.
Mohnish Pabrai
Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
Aubrey Daniels
Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
Stephen Covey
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
Ernest Sosa
