(505 quotes found)
“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
Robert Brault
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
Bill Vaughn
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox
“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist”
Mark Twain
“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
Norman Cousins
“A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
George Bernard Shaw
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