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Wishful Thinking Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- 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…
- The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is…
- Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from…
- There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
- 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…
- 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)…
More Wishful Thinking Quotes
- I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration… — Jan C. Ting
- If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement… — Kofi Annan
- I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I… — Steve Nash
- [There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding… — Irving Langmuir
- 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… — Anne Lamott
- About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein
- Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional… — Greg Koukl
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein
- People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive… — Thucydides
- At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of… — Don Berliner
- [Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people… — Vincent Bugliosi
- The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on… — Peter Fader