We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
Interpretation
Challenging conventional thinking can lead to innovation and progress.
This quote by J. William Fulbright emphasizes the importance of pushing beyond traditional boundaries of thought. It suggests that in order to foster creativity and find novel solutions to problems, we must be willing to embrace ideas that seem impossible or unconventional.
In practice
In a brainstorming session at work, to encourage wild ideas, one might say, 'Remember, we must dare to think unthinkable thoughts!'
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
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