How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so…

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

— Confucius

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world…

— Odell Shepard

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the…

— Damien Chazelle

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing…

— John Grant

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold…

— J. Oswald Sanders

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing…

— Jacob Anderson

“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula…

— Edgar Saltus

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all…

— Orson Bean

“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.”

— Paulo Coelho

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

— John C. Maxwell

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

— Shimon Peres

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

— Antonio Gramsci