Quotes of: Pessimist Keyword

To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Elias Canetti

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

John Linder

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Russian

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Maynard James Keenan

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will ...

Tony Blair

To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed.

Finnish

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James A. Baldwin

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Nicholas Hoult

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

Paul Hawken

I'm only sixteen and I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

Haruki Murakami

Chiki: Do you even know what's the difference between a pessimist and an optimist? Nino: No, what? Chiki: A pessimist thinks things can't be worse. An optimist knows they can.

No Man's Land

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Adam Savage

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist—only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Emil Cioran

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

Breaking Murphy's Law: How Optimists Get What They Want from Life - and Pessimists Can Too

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

As the World Churns

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I b...

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