“Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that… — Bill Schutt Copy Share Image
Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of… — Jonathan M. Wainwright Copy Share Image
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
If we feel that we are always right, this is a real mistake. This is not so much positive thinking as arrogant… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is wishful thinking that an anti-extremism campaign will work when this country was founded on puritanical Islam. We have to grow… — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
“From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“The nice girl loses an important protective mechanism when she assumes that life is fair, or that Prince Charming will always protect… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
“Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison said in all seriousness: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labour of… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“The way out of the drama triangle, as many spiritual teachers, therapists and coaches have suggested, is the creative orientation. This is… — Frank Forencich Copy Share Image
“Perversion is used only to overcome moral prejudices or conformity; the mind and desire must become amoral, focused and made entirely acceptive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When you want something bad enough, it never turns out how you thought it would be. — Faith Jackson Copy Share Image
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“You can be all that you wish and desire to be. Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It’s faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.” — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.” — David Lagercrantz Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
