“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we feel that we are always right, this is a real mistake. This is not so much positive thinking as arrogant… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“You have got to have a concept of the volume around here." "Was the dream wishful thinking, or could Spirit be indestructible,… — Phil Arnold 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
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When Jim was growing up, good colleges were challenging to get into, but it wasn't like it is today, when being a… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
“Telling a depressed person things like “Pull yourself out of it” is cruel and may reinforce the feelings of worthlessness, guilt, and… — Francis Mark Mondimore Copy Share Image
I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human… — Ruth Hurmence Green 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
“When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or… — Sandra L. Schneider Copy Share Image
“Lecter sits in his armchair with a big pad of butcher paper doing calculations. The pages are filled with the symbols both… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“From at least the age of six, romantic longing --Sechnsucht-- has played an unusually central part of my experience. Such longing is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“It is wishful thinking that an anti-extremism campaign will work when this country was founded on puritanical Islam. We have to grow… — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a… — Erik Pevernagie 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
Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“What started out as wishful thinking, angel given signs from above, was now just an imprisoned lot of dirty, broken pieces that… — Elizabeth Lee Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t be a hero in the hero-tale sense. Not even in a fantasy? No. Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“I can’t see you at all, actually. I’m . . . pretty sure I’m in love with Travis.” My whole world stopped.… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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