“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
“Somebody better be dead or dying." He froze mid-step when he saw her. It might have been wishful thinking but she could've… — Cherrie Lynn Copy Share Image
Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available.… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
“The afterlife is what you want it to be. Not what you wish it was when you are alive, but what you… — Al K. Line Copy Share Image
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“From Wishful Thinking...Sydney's first siting of her soon to be love interest, "as I gazed across the fire the hairs on the… — S.P. Wilcox Copy Share Image
..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“He said there are two ways for a hitter to get the pitch he wants. The simplest way is not to want… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“ I now pronounce you husband and wife. I hadn’t considered the kiss. Not once. I suppose I’d assumed it would be… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
“From the outset, it was clear to me that Boot’s dictum was wishful thinking. Already the Bush doctrine had made a vicious… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Despite the wishful thinking of evangelicals impatient for the Rapture or deep ecologists who believe that Gaia would be happiest with a… — Mike Davis Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans),… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
“Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
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
“When someone stubbornly insists that they saw something with their own eyes, i take it as a statement mixed with wishful thinking.… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
We always say we have wishful thinking that the Unites States would be unbiased, respect the international law, doesn't interfere in other… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
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
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
“Fool, he tells himself. She’s not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is… — Sean Chercover 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
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
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
“...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
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
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
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