Dangerous Quote by Stephen Hawking

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But…

— Francis Fukuyama

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

— Brent Scowcroft

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

— Edward Abbey

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We are optimists, until we are not.

— Charles Darwin

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

— Dale Jamieson

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

— Doc Rivers

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be…

— Leymah Gbowee

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

— Ken MacLeod

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

— Chogyam Trungpa