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“There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.”

Knows Firsts Two Important Reason Philosophy Opinion Impossible Middle Ignorance Truth Is Important Things Threat Extremes Sensible Quests Unnecessary Middle Ground Two Extremes Socratic

Author:Allan Bloom

“Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions”

Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

“We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.”

Giving Self Opinion Enemy Judging Extremes Offense Complacency Conceit Defiance

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”

Men May Seems Opinion Middle Fronts He Man Extremes Revolutionary Benches Reactionaries

Book:Diaries, 1924-1932

Source: Diaries, 1924-1932

“I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.”

Way Mean Faces Culture Challenges Opinion Extremes Simplify Marginalized

Author:Zainab Salbi

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.”

Thinking Way Art Different Artist Opinion Extremes Angle Anarchist Different Angles

Author:Robert Zemeckis