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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.
C. S. Lewis
Truth
You
Will
Thinking
Despair
Find
Only
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Look
Comfort
End
Begin
Get
May
Soap
In The End
Either
Soft
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell
Best
Words
Thinking
Other
Others
Worst
Case
Idealism
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Opposite
Expense
In Other Words
Either
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin
Thinking
Thoughtful
Habit
Wishes
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Stop
Start
As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.
Greg Gutfeld
Life
Truth
Treat
Remember
Weather
Somewhere
Single
Breakfast
Thinking
Increase
Saved
Else
Bad
Easy
Somewhere Else
Attacks
Never
Bad Weather
Over
Wishful
Like
Wishful Thinking
Read
Single Life
Foreign
However
Hits
Shores
Happening
Storm
Them
Your
Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
Ben Shapiro
Peace
Matter
Worldview
Partner
Thinking
President
President Barack Obama
Pressures
Obama
Threat
Russian
Putin
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Make
How
Real
Israel
How Much
Israeli
Mitigate
Mocking
Any
Barack
Barack Obama
Much
Less
Palestinians
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
Life
Science
Humanity
Thinking
Earth
Ancient
Fabricated
Cosmos
Through
Attempts
Over
Hijacked
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Tales
Beyond
Concern
Understand
Got
However
Years
Existence
Often
Human
Place
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
John Ortberg
Hope
Business
People
Church
Thinking
Ought
Our
All People
Ability
Something
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Most
Known
Because
Than
Human
Deeper
Founded
Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.
Justine Musk
Hope
World
Thinking
Way
More
Through
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Than
Moving
Much
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.
Lauren Groff
Freedom
You
Community
Think
Thinking
Would
More
Could
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Get
Childhood
Conventional
Loved
Created
Certain
Amount
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.
Sal Khan
Faith
Thinking
Our
Say
Habit
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Leaps
Testing
Based
Largely
Suffice
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
You
Surrender
World
First
Cowardice
Thinking
Response
Launch
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Permission
Real
Commercial
Send
Want
The Real World
Real World
Agent
Asking
Manuscript
Letter
Resistance
The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.
Yuval Noah Harari
Will
Thinking
Ability
Idea
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Reach
Beyond
Always
Just
Unique
Humans
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
Richard Dawkins
Change
Will
Thinking
Something
True
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Amount
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