If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“You can get what you want in life. You must reach out with all your heart.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful… — Ginny Baird Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe. — Martha Albrand Copy Share Image
It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you… — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do. — Mark Cane Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean,… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, we have to stop ‘play time,’ start ‘construction time’ and get things going, instead of getting mired down… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I wish you can hold my hand when I'm scared but you can't... I wish I could gives you hugs, but I… — Becka Miller Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to… — Robert A Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“It was just over thirty years ago that I had the dramatic out-of-body experience that convinced me of the reality of psychic… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming… — Otep Shamaya Copy Share Image
“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle. — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
