105 Quotes About Wishful-thinking

All of the sudden, we were a grown-up married couple! Like little figures in a doll's house, we sat there dazed, in awe, wishing a chubby little arm would pass through a window and move us around, tell us what to do. We would have given anything for a magnificent child to show us how to be husband and wife.

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

Let them not cold-call our attention, besiege our feelings, and disturb our dreams, those dealers in phony compassion selling wishful thinking through merchandising sentimental poppycock. ("Like a frozen image")

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.

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

No man knows to be nice, without being a hypocrite.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?