Extremism Quote by Manal al-Sharif

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.”

— Carl R. Rogers

“So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing.”

— Ray Dalio

“great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.”

— Susan Neiman

“I am suspicious of my existing ideas, my conscious thoughts and convictions. They are what I need to get beyond, into ignorance and after…

— Louise Glück

“I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized I had better come to grips with…

— Tom Skinner

“To understand the truth of everything, it took guts more than simply thinking.”

— Toba Beta

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“I am continually coming back to the belief that I know nothing, or that there are much deeper places to go with what I…

— Scott Stabile

“It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs