"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

#Writing Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world.”
“When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.”
“All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.”

Source : "Michel Gondry: 'That's my new policy - self-censorship'" by Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.
“Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.”
“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
“I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.”
“I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.”
“I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.”

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 64, 1897.

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