Pessimism Quote by William Lanouette Download Open image ““It is hard to be right and be a pessimist,” Szilard concluded.24”” — William Lanouette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pessimism
“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.” — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Leo said that his function was to head up the Happiness Committee,” Lerner recalled. “He said a university ran on the happiness of the faculty, and he wanted to be the one to think up ways of keeping them happy.” See that they are well paid, Szilard said, that their offices are comfortable, their graduate assistants are bright and eager,… — William Lanouette Copy Share
“an expert is a man who knows what cannot be done.” Szilard found that last paragraph “rather irritating because how can anyone know what… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
“he mentioned that The Tragedy of Man by Madách had “influenced my whole life.” The moral he recalled from it was that no matter… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
“Allison gave the reporters something more stirring to write about. “Scientist Drops A-Bomb: Blasts Army Shackles,” the Chicago Tribune reported about his remarks. “We are determined to return to free research, as before the war,” he said, warning that if military regulations hampered the free exchange of scientific information, researchers in America “would leave the field of atomic energy and… — William Lanouette Copy Share
“Recognize the connections of things and the laws of conduct of men so that you may know what you are doing.” — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
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“Your knowledge and wisdom determine who you are. In our society, there is a market for skills and knowledge. But I have some doubts… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
“Adamson scoffed. It generally takes two wars to develop a new weapon, he said; besides, it was “morale,” not research, that led to victory.… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
“Let your acts be directed toward a worthy goal but do not ask if they will reach it; they are to be models and… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
“Honor children. Listen reverently to their words and speak to them with infinite love.” — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
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“imagination is the tool which has to be used if the impossible is to be accomplished.”74” — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
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When life hands you lemons, you squirt them in the eye, than yell that you wanted limes! — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my last dogma defiantly) it is not native to man to be so. Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims at surrounding it with an unfavorable aura by bringing in extrascientific, emotional considerations is best shown by the fact that one can, with as much justice, call those people "optimists" who are convinced that the construction… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
