Best Wishful Sayings

104 Wishful quotes by 89 unique authors

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C.S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth… — C.S. Lewis
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. — Mary Martin
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others.… — Thomas Sowell
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as… — Carl Sagan
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,”… — Robert A. Heinlein
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. — Amy Tan
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think)… — C.S. Lewis
If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to… — Alberto Manguel
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful… — Sigmund Freud
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His… — Albert Einstein
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will… — Bell Hooks
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful… — Zora Neale Hurston
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think… — Ruth Hurmence Green
It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful. — Nora Roberts
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up… — Lois McMaster Bujold
You should never wish for wishful thinking. — Rachel Cohn
My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking. — Groucho Marx
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss. — Deb Caletti
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but… — Kathleen Norris
Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures me that anyone… — Anne Stuart
A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or… — Hugh Howey
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 not. The real… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. — Douglas Coupland

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