Wishful Thinking Quotes

90 Wishful Thinking quotes by 74 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of… — Richard Dawkins
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future. — Maria V. Snyder
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates… — Rick Riordan
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more… — Gian-Carlo Rota
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility. — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. — Chuck Palahniuk

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