Unthinkable Quotes

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.

He cannot conceive of a tempest outside a teapot.

This is the most unheard of thing that I have ever heard of

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

There are thoughts we must not think.

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

One can't believe impossible things.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

He made the impossible possible.

Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.