Optimist Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image “I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Optimist Pessimism Pessimist Realist Try
There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right. — Drake Copy Share Image
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day,… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
