Pessimism Quotes

357 Pessimism quotes by 235 unique authors

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that… — Victor Cherbuliez
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it… — Oscar Wilde
When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy. — Warren Buffett
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our… — Price Pritchett
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is… — Robert Breault
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race! — Ernest Hemingway
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless… — Glenn T. Seaborg
Invest at the point of maximum pessimism. — John Templeton
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time… — John Templeton
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison. — Renzo Novatore
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are… — Brando Skyhorse
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement.… — Pope Francis
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is… — Arthur Schopenhauer
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on… — Arthur Schopenhauer
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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