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Pessimist Quotes

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Mark Twain

It is preferable to be an idealist who sometimes errs rather than a cynic who is always accurate.
Authors on Pessimist Quotes: Mark Twain Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Lewis Mumford Bill Maher Maynard James Keenan Pope Francis James A. Baldwin Thomas Buckner Charlie Munger Jean de La Fontaine Laurell K. Hamilton Winston Churchill Eyedea Norman Cousins Rush Limbaugh Alice Walker Bob Iger Mira Grant Paul Harvey Rex Stout Christian D. Larson Joan Baez Isaac Bashevis Singer Vaclav Havel Edmond Rostand Nouriel Roubini J. Robert Oppenheimer Will Harvey Amy Waldman Martin Seligman Barbara Mertz George Meyer Spike Lee
2.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
William Golding

I am inherently an optimist, but by reason of my beliefs I am a pessimist.
3.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A cynic is an idealist with a clear understanding of reality.
4.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
Martin Seligman

Life throws the same obstacles and hardships at both the hopeful and the despondent, yet the hopeful weather them more adequately.
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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
Mark Twain

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A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
Eyedea

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford

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I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Maynard James Keenan

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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout

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The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
Ralph Waldo Trine

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That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
James Jones

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I've never met a successful pessimist.
William O'Neil

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The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
Christian D. Larson

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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward

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I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
James A. Baldwin

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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid

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I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter

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The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
Francois Guizot

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner

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When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
Jan Smuts

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[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
Amy Waldman

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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
Jack Welch

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An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
Harry S. Truman

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We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.
Rush Limbaugh

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I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
Vaclav Havel

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I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey

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I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Christopher Nolan

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Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.
Charlie Munger

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I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
Lisa Kleypas

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Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
Robin Sharma

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Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
Steven Galloway

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I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala

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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
Voltaire

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett

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A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Edmond Rostand

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Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Will Harvey

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How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
Denis Waitley

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To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
Elsa Triolet

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I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.
Lewis Mumford

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You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
Rondal Partridge

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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.
Alice Walker

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Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
Julian Tuwim

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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
Victor Cherbuliez

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I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
Frances Moore Lappé

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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah

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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
Elbert Hubbard