Wishful Thinking Quotes
90 quotes by 78 authors
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to…
— Jan C. Ting
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If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more…
— Kofi Annan
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I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being…
— Steve Nash
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human…
— Irving Langmuir
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Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
— Anne Lamott
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About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination.…
— Albert Einstein
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Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking?…
— Greg Koukl
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking
— Thucydides
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At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by…
— Don Berliner
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[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too'…
— Peter Fader
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Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies…
— C.S. Lewis
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills…
— C.S. Lewis
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Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
— Jim Rogers
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
— A. A. Gill
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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian…
— David M. Raup
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Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we…
— Jonathan M. Wainwright
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I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.
— Fred Alan Wolf
Who Wrote These Wishful Thinking Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 90 Wishful Thinking Quotes, led by these top contributors: