J. William Fulbright Quotes

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

I intend to stay dangerous.

My approach is just fearless. I'm not afraid to try anything.

It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.

The Wachowskis have a very complex way of thinking and of creating.

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.