Books Quote by Albert Vigoleis Thelen

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

— Antonio Gramsci

“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”

— Jean Rostand

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his…

— Ambrose Bierce

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We”

— Ian McEwan

“Pessimism is a primary source of passivity. As”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

— Evelin Lindner

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

— Upton Sinclair

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.”

— Anonymous