Optimists Quotes
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
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More Optimists Quotes
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
gladys bronwyn stern— Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p.41
Leaders must be optimists. Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true freedom.
rudy giuliani— Speech before the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. August 30, 2004. [2]
Communists are the last optimists.
nadine gordimer— Conrad in Burger's Daughter (1979), p. 42
...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative ; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford— Faith for Living, (1940). Often quoted as "Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.", e.g, Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 112.
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.
Georges Bernanos— p.38 (Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938)
