Wishful Thinking Quotes

90 Wishful Thinking quotes by 74 unique authors

So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it… — Byron York
It's not "wishful" thinking. — Rhonda Byrne
Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance! — Adrian Rogers
Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions. — Sayyid Qutb
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are… — N. T. Wright
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. — Watts Humphrey
To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on… — Alexander Elder
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give… — William S. Burroughs
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper… — Fred Alan Wolf
The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be;… — Raymond J. de Souza
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Tim Ferriss
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do. — Mark Cane
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. — Jalal Talabani
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's… — Jan Brewer
Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves,… — Ruth Hurmence Green
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news… — Jeremy Grantham
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is… — Marvin Minsky
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… — C.S. Lewis
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C.S. Lewis
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. — Benjamin Franklin
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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

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