"The cynic thinks that he is being practical……" — Charles Eisenstein
"The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds."
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Charles Eisenstein
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44 Quotes by Charles Eisenstein
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More Cynic Quotes
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
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I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real…
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help…
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently…
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and…
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does…
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad…
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