Dreams Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin…

— Miguel de Unamuno

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

— David Rakoff

I love optimism but most times reality isn't all optimistic and sometimes we have to say things the way they appear to us.

— Terry Mark

Having a pessimistic outlook on life rather than an optimistic outlook is more realistic.

— Jenna Goldberg

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Instead getting confused in the concepts of pessimistic or optimistic, one must be realistic.

— Senoraroy

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

— Anonymous

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with…

— George Weigel

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

— Stephen Curry

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always…

— Guy Pearce

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

— Elon Musk

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can…

— John Maynard Keynes