Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful…

“Why do I want to take care of Mr. President, particularly when he’s desperate like this? Sure, he has been useful—he has saved me…

— John Green

Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature and the…

— Hannah Fry

“Perhaps that had been one of the ineradicable faults of mankind - for even a convinced atheist had to admit there were faults -…

— Brian W. Aldiss

“In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me more than…

— Ibn al-Arabi

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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