Wishful Thinking Quotes

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

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 only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

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 universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

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, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

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 possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

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 regrets and wishful thinking.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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 wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

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' bandwagon will survive.

[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 for reality.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

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 than ever.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

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 meant to do.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure

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.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

It's not "wishful" thinking.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

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 an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

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.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

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 in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

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 and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.