History Quote by Jan Smuts

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

— Oliver Stone

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

— Carl Rogers

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

— Nate Lowman

I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

— David Autor

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

— Max Lerner

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you…

— Edwin Morgan

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

— William Golding

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

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind…

— Wole Soyinka

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

— Ron Currie Jr

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the…

— Robert A. Heinlein