Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“But the resurrection without the crucifixion is empty optimism, an optimism that gives credence to Freud's notion that wishful thinking is the… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier 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
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. — Edith Wharton 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
“The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking. The current… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
“And maybe on the first day of school I’ll tell the guidance counselor I want to go to college after all so… — E. Lee Copy Share Image
“There’s something almost magical dancing around us, like I’m inside a cloud nebula and we’re creating our own star. I think he… — N.K. Smith 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of… — Cheryl Saban 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
“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota 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
“Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell 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
“To think that we can or should all ‘go Amish’ and stick our heads in the sand with regard to technology is… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
