Cynic Quote by Stefano Benni Download Open image “"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.” — Stefano Benni ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynic Optimist Realist
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical,… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong. — Tom King Copy Share Image
“Vatra je moja nežnost, jer anđeo i zver u moju dušu padoše zagrljeni...” — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“Vidi che la banconota era tutta stropicciata, come l'assegno di Fefelli quel giorno a scuola, ma era una cosa diversa. I soldi si trasformano,… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.” — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb. — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong,… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
