Pessimist Is An Optimist Quotes

#1. A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Joe Posnanski

#3. The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Albert Schweitzer

#4. It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Stanislaw Ulam

#5. Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

Franklin P. Adams

#6. A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Josiah Stamp

#7. I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Frances Moore Lappe

#8. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Rene Descartes

#9. The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.

Gregor Collins

#10. It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

Elizabeth Peters

#11. An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

Nicholas Proffitt

#13. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Louis Zamperini

#16. 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.

Albert Schweitzer

#17. For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twice
bigger than necessary.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#18. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry Truman

#19. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Mark Twain

#20. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

Robert A. Heinlein

#22. For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Debasish Mridha

#23. An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?

Debasish Mridha

#24. I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

Jules Breton

#25. A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Chauncey Depew

#26. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

#27. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Ada Leverson

#28. I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

A.E. Housman

#29. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Victor Cherbuliez

#30. The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#31. In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

Abel Aganbegyan

#32. Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

David Harley

#33. I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

#34. A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

Eyedea

#35. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Mark Twain

#36. An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

Milan Kundera

#37. An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

Harry S. Truman

#38. For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

Lesslie Newbigin

#40. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Mark Twain

#41. An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

Helen Rowland

#42. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

#43. Don't ever become a pessimist ... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein