Badness Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but…

— GK Chesterton

“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who…

— Milan Kundera

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

— Thomas Friedman

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

— Heinz Ruhmann

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist…

— Milan Kundera

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

— Helen Rowland

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

— Helen Keller

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

— Mark Twain

“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is unknown and…

— William Ayers

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like…

— Howard Jacobson

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't…

— Edward Steichen

“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the pessimist spends…

— Shimon Peres