Optimism Quote by Toothangel15

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

— Tom Hanks

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost…

— Elizabeth Berg

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism…

— Albert Schweitzer

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

— Daniel Kahneman

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

— Raymond Aron

Find optimism in the inevitable

— Rem Koolhaas

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

— Erich Fromm

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

— Bertrand Russell

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his…

— Ambrose Bierce

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

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