I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do. — Mark Cane Copy Share Image
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you… — Ronald McNair Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you… — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief or popular wishful thinking, love doesnt always end happily. It doesnt always result in the joining of two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Could it be that he felt sorry for me after all? Or that his hostile attitude was really a cover up, designed… — A.B.Whelan 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… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe. — Martha Albrand Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful… — Ginny Baird 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 you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make… — Nancy Pickard 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
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
“The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.” — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg 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
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates 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 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
“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
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
“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
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