It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or… — Grant-Lee Phillips Copy Share Image
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“I was a diligent student with integrity, so I didn't talk to anyone in class and passed the time in silence.” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained… — Abie Abraham Copy Share Image
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people,… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government,… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to… — Dick Keyes Copy Share Image
“The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers. — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart. — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
“The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism.… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
