Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right"
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Pessimist
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"A pessimist is a well-informed optimist."
Lewis Mumford
Philosopher, Author
"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."
Ralph Waldo Trine
Philosopher
"The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each."
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"I've never met a successful pessimist."
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"I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive."
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"I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart."
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"Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am."
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"Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope."
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"Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem."
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"What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin."
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"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."
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"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better."
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"Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist."
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"I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist."
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"I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities."
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"A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems."
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"I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films."
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"Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive."
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"Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up."
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