Pessimism Quote by Maloy Krishna Dhar

“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is…

— Timothy Snyder

“George Bernard Shaw was on to something years ago when one of his maxims for revolutionaries stated, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the…

— Michael Bungay Stanier

“People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.”

— Dean M. Schroeder

“Your cynicism lies in your willing abuse of others to consolidate your superiority over them. My cynicism is in regard to humanity’s wilful blindness…

— Steven Erikson

“Power is an illusion of perception.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the…

— Michael Crichton

“People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the…

— Marcel Proust

“There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be…

— Charles Darwin

“Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.”

— Bernd Heinrich