Imagine Wishful Thinking Quotes

Everything you imagine can come true. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. ~ Watts Humphrey

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other. ~ Helen Keller

This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England. ~ Andrea Mays

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. ~ Marty Rubin

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one. ~ Idries Shah

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention
a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit? ~ C.S. Lewis

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. ~ Jalal Talabani

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. ~ Greg Koukl

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. ~ Fred Alan Wolf

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't. ~ Emma Donoghue

Displaying the key elements of L1 and L2 acquisition, O'Neill, R. (1998) assesses that acquiring L2 as children acquire their L1 is a "wishful thinking and… based on a profound misconception about the nature of L2 learning - just as it is a misconception about how L1 acquisition occurs". Hereinafter, O'Neill, R. (1998) maintains that "the best way to explore the differences between the two processes is to view them side-by-side – in parallel". ~ Endri Shqerra

And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and every memory I kept of Callum, polluting them until I couldn't tell which was real and what was just wishful thinking any more. Until at last, I was forced to face the inescapable fact that, for whatever reason, Callum had written the letter. ~ Malorie Blackman

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality. ~ Lee Strobel

I once heard an author describe writing as taking bits and pieces of her experiences and observations, then she questions, dissects, and analyzes them. She extrapolates from them, stretching the thought out. Then she adds from her imagination a big dose of what might have been, a good measure of what would never be, and spices it all with wishful thinking. ~ Laurie Brown

Wishful thinking is a powerful force. ~ Susan Wiggs

I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking. ~ Angela Carter

Abraham Lincoln said you cannot deceive everybody all the time. Well, that's wishful thinking. In practice, the power of human cooperation networks depends on a delicate balance between truth and fiction. If you distort reality too much, it will weaken you, and you will not be able to compete against more clear-sighted rivals. On the other hand, you cannot organise masses of people effectively without relying on some fictional myths. So if you stick to unalloyed reality, without mixing any fiction with it, few people will follow you. If ~ Yuval Noah Harari

Even if atheists were right
that prayer is wishful thinking
they are right only in relation to God, not in relation to wishing. The importance of prayer is that it is an expression of our spiritual nature, and when we wish for love, peace,for our own good and the good of others we define ourselves as more than flesh and blood. We define ourselves as hoping, loving, and imagining beings who crave to know the source of our being. ~ R. Joseph Hoffmann

Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over ... ~ Emma Goldman

When circumstances feel as if they are turning surreal, like the current political situation. We can be guaranteed, our intuition will lead the way to the truth, as long as we don't live in a world of wishful thinking. ~ Anita B. Sulser PhD

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 Lappe

Wishful thinking, that time might heal - it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly. ~ Charles Todd

Please tell me the truth about yourself. ~ Diane Samuels

Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from. ~ Shannon L. Alder

He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB! ~ Rick Riordan

Don't you wish some people came with a silencer? ~ Josh Stern

There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say that motivation is an aspect of cognition itself. Nevertheless, motives like wanting to find the truth, not wanting to be mistaken, etc., tend to align with epistemic goals in a way that many other commitments do not. As we have begun to see, all reasoning may be inextricable from emotion. But if a person's primary motivation in holding a belief is to hue to a positive state of mind, to mitigate feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, or guilt for instance. This is precisely what we mean by phrases like "wishful thinking", and "self-deception". Such a person will of necessity be less responsive to valid chains of evidence and argument that run counter to the beliefs he is seeking to maintain. To point out non-epistemic motives in an others view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt on a persons connection to the world as it is. ~ Sam Harris

I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL. ~ Robert M. Price

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. ~ Jill Tarter