Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. — Aldous Huxley 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
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
You can spend your whole life complaining about how much you hate life or you can spend it finding new ways to… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“The optimist says, "The glass is half full.” The pessimist says, “The glass is half empty.” The rationalist says, “This glass is… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on,… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You do not suffer from your beliefs. You suffer from your disbeliefs. If you have no hope inside of you, it's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and… — Steve Backley Copy Share Image
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… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“There are individuals, who unfortunately are built with an immense amount of negativity. People will always tell you to run away from… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
