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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self." »Demosthenes, Olynthiac
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"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self." »Demosthenes
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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." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms." »Robert Heinlein
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"Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses." »Sigmund Freud
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"You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself." »Marquis de Sade
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"Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality." »Jon Kabit-Zinn
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"Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking." »Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
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"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again." »Evelyn Underhill
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"Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead." »Emmet Fox
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"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." »Zig Ziglar
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"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities." »Terry Josephson
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"Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more." »Sybil Adelman
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"On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles." »Bertolt Brecht
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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." »A. A. Milne
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"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." »Eric Butterworth
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"There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking." »John M. Eades
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"Someone, somewhere right now is thinking about You!" »Tom Zegan
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"Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical." »Niels Henrik David Bohr
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"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking." »Joan Rivers
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"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts." »John Dewey
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"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Go into everything thinking it may be temporary." »Todd-Demetrius Williams
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"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big." »Donald J. Trump
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"Go into everything thinking it may be temporary." »Todd Demetrius Williams
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." »William Shakespeare
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"How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." »Dr. Jonas Salk
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