This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The…

Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in…

— Louis Kronenberger

If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling…

— Daniel Henninger

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age…

— Helen Hayes

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

— Shereen El Feki

“My fingers combed through my dark hair, short and straight, landing in choppy, uneven ends nearly level with my chin. The color reminded me…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for…

— Willa Cather

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good…

— Jeremy Grantham

“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.”

— David Lagercrantz

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

— Leslie Ford

“Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth,…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

— Frank Herbert

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise…

— Marvin Minsky

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

— Anne Lamott

“What would be the use of distributing millions upon billions upon trillions of sublime rasa-saturated scriptures if, as a result of all the hustle…

— Aindra Das