If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it. — Richard Dawkins 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
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
“Hoping and dreaming alone is insufficient to make your hopes and dreams come true.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Maybe this is wishful thinking, Probably mindless dreaming but if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right, — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions;… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope… — John Ortberg 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
I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational,… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“To My Children, I'm dedicating my little story to you; doubtless you will be among the very few who will ever read… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I wish I were … I wish I had … I wish this never happened … I wish I could be …… — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“It may be tempting to imagine that if the Bush administration had known the power of the Karbala story, American troops would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking, that time might heal—it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly.” — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
“You have to choose your path. You have to decide what you wish to do. You are the only person that can… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I fantasized how no matter what happened, no one could ever come between us, call it wishful thinking, I called it a… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
“My dad invented the concept of Simon logic, and I can’t seem to outgrow it. It means wishful thinking supported by flimsy… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.” — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg Copy Share Image
Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions. — Sayyid Qutb 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
“Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
