Faster Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

— Julius Caesar

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we wish, that we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

— Neil Gaiman

I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of…

— Barbara Kruger

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we…

— Anonymous

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

— Jean Ingelow

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

— Thomas Hardy

“All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.”

— Gian Kumar

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

— Plautus