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«An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
color-blind, colorblind, green, green light, optimist, pessimist, red, red light, stoplight
«An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.»
«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
Author: G. B. Stern
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Society
| Keywords:
Airplanes, contribute, invents, optimist, optimists, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, pessimist, Pessimists
«Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.»
«A pessimist is never disappointed.»
«A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
clouds, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, moped, mopes, moping, optimist, pessimist, philosopher, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sides, The Clouds, The Dark, walking
«All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, deny, monstrous, pronounce, pronouncing, welcome
«A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties»
«Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.»
«A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.»
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