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  • We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.

    Country   Thinking   Law  
    The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.
  • 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.

    Thinking   Play   Miles  
    Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.222, Anchor
  • 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 place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.

    Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.193, Penguin
  • A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

    Thinking   Years   Ideas  
  • 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 of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.27, Harper Collins
  • Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

    Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd
  • Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

    Issues   Naked   Violence  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin
  • There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

    Believe   Thinking   Want  
  • So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.

    Moving   Thinking   Years  
  • 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 often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.

  • No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

    Martha Albrand (1966). “A door fell shut”
  • 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.

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

    "The selfish gene's birthday" by Sue Blackmore, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2006.
  • Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

    "Right Time, Right Place, Right Move, Right Now!". Book by Perry W. Buffington, Section I : Life, 1992.
  • Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

    "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.
  • 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.

  • I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

    Regret   Writing   Mean  
  • Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

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

  • You should never wish for wishful thinking.

    Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.122, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

    Life   Men   Wish  
    Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com
  • The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.

  • 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

    Thinking   Joy   Action  
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
  • you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

    Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.236
  • memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

    Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1211, Head of Zeus
  • There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

  • To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

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

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