Candide Quote by Voltaire

“What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going…

— Voltaire

“It is when things are at worst you will get the best.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best.”

— Robert Dykstra

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

— Bill Crawford

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world…

— Mark Ravenhill

“Be optimistic every day, not just when things are good.”

— Karma Peters

“Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties, but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates…

— Anonymous

“Hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.”

— Pawan Mishra

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.

— William Arthur Ward

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It…

— Ambrose Bierce

Optimism is a cure for many things.

— Michael J. Fox

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is…

— Ambrose Bierce