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Optimism

«The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer (Physicist) | About: Funny, Optimism | Keywords: best of all, optimist, pessimist, possible worlds, worlds
«The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.»
Author: Robert Brault | About: Optimism | Keywords: average, case, eraser, erasers, inch, inches, in case, Just a, just in case, optimism, seven, sevens
«The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.»
Author: William Arthur Ward | About: Optimism, Realism | Keywords: adjusting, adjusts, complains, expects, optimist, pessimist, realist, realists, sails, The Realist, The Wind, wind
«The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Pastor, Theologian) | About: Optimism | Keywords: abandon, enables, no-account, optimism, resigned, vitality
«There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.»
Author: Stephen Hawking (Physicist) | About: Optimism | Keywords: cautious, grounds, Laws of nature, optimism
«The most positive men are the most credulous.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Optimism, Positive thinking | Keywords: credulous
«The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Optimism, Pessimism | Keywords: oblivious, optimist, pessimist, rose, stares, The Rose, thorns
«The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Optimism, Pessimism | Keywords: eight, forty, Forty eight, optimist, pessimist, too little
«There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Optimism | Keywords: optimist, pessimist, sadder, sight
«The basis of optimism is sheer terror.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Optimism, Positive thinking | Keywords: basis, optimism, sheer, sheerer, terror
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