All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Trying to prove yourself to cynics is an absolute waste of your time. Making time with people who care about you is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't always make sense. And that's the great beauty of it, the great mystery–the thing cynics who scoff at so-called 'insta-love'… — Brooke Cumberland Copy Share Image
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
“So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Cynics build no bridges; they make no discoveries; no gaps are spanned by them. Cynics may pride themselves in being realistic in… — Paul L. McKay Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“No one is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics cannot relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Cynics are spoiled romantics. They are always the ones who had the highest expectations at the start. They were once so naïve… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“optimistic people didn’t write Pulitzer Prize-winning material—grumpy, pessimistic cynics did.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
