Pessimistic Quote by B. F. Skinner Download Open image “I'm very pessimistic.” — B. F. Skinner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pessimistic Very
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
“We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.” — Josh Cathey Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
