Top 1200 Wishful Thinking Quotes & Sayings

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

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

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

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

Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

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 not wishful thinking.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.

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

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

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 want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.

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

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

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

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

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 evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.

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.

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

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

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

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

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

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

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

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 wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.

Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.

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

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

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 much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

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.

It's not "wishful" thinking.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

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'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.

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

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

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

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

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.

Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

[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.

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

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.