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.
I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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