“Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.”
David Wolf
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
George Carlin
“No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”
Oscar Wilde
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“Cynics are well-informed optimists”
Jeff Frieden
“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
