Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. — Henri Poincare
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the… — Galileo Galilei
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for… — Sigmund Freud
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes. — Honore de Balzac
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. — Charles Caleb Colton
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. — Jascha Heifetz
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat… — Abraham Lincoln
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed… — Abraham Lincoln
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about… — Abraham Lincoln
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
I am always for the man who wishes to work. — Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not… — Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,… — Abraham Lincoln
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -… — Abraham Lincoln
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. — James Madison
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… — Paul Cezanne
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try… — Saint Augustine
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed… — Dan Barker
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."… — Bertrand Russell
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger… — Sigmund Freud

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