The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she… — Joanna Hoffman Copy Share Image
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