Top 91 Quotes About Cynics
#1. Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics ...
Arthur Koestler
#3. It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions,
Bertrand Russell
#4. True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.
Jewel
#5. What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. After I charge their brains with my own brand of skeptical electricity, I unleash them - the New Cynics - upon a world that is slowly and happily critiquing itself to death.
Kristopher Jansma
#7. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
Albert Einstein
#8. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.
Terry Pratchett
#9. So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In
Colum McCann
#10. I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles ...
Lance Armstrong
#12. Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.
Tom Hiddleston
#13. Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.
Ronald Reagan
#14. There are people who are 'toxic', then there are 'poisonous' people...
We find them in various degrees in critics, cynics, haters, fault finders, bullies, abusers, envious, jealous, insecure people..
What do we do to toxins and poison...is what we do to them as well..!!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#15. Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.
Joe Biden
#16. Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms
Seth Godin
#17. There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor to put himself in question, to take care of himself, and to make his soul as beautiful and wise as possible.
Pierre Hadot
#18. Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Jeff Bridges
#19. She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.
Dean Koontz
#20. Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed - but seldom in themselves.
Laura Lippman
#21. Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.
Norman Vincent Peale
#22. Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.
Marilyn Ferguson
#23. You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.
Jim Butcher
#24. War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.
Chris Hedges
#25. Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.
Robin Sharma
#27. Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?
Ray Bradbury
#28. It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
Molly Ivins
#29. Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
Henry A. Kissinger
#30. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
Calvin Coolidge
#31. The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John Keats
#32. I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.
Robert Redford
#33. He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
Sarah Dessen
#34. Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
Wilferd Peterson
#35. Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
Alice Rivlin
#36. Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.
Alain De Botton
#37. All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
Josh Lanyon
#38. Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.
Simon Singh
#40. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H.L. Mencken
#41. Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
Mark Warner
#42. We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.
Anton Chekhov
#43. The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.
Mario Andretti
#44. The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H.L. Mencken
#45. Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
#46. To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.
George Carlin
#47. We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
Paul Hoffman
#48. Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.
Monica Murphy
#49. I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
Tzipi Livni
#50. In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.
Shelley Hendrix
#51. Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy Hattersley
#53. If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
Paul Auster
#54. Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?
Robert Black
#55. And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar.
Camilo Garzon
#56. He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.
Meredith Duran
#58. Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.
George Carlin
#59. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.
Michael J. Saylor
#60. That's the hopefulness of Les Miserables some cynics have ignored, the idea that the individual can rise above the cultural darkness and make a difference.
Bob Welch
#61. The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
Petr Skrabanek
#62. The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
Will Self
#63. I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Joshua Lederberg
#64. cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.
John Connolly
#65. An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists ... Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen.
[Time 1937]
Time-Life Books
#66. I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.
Chris Pine
#67. To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
Lance Armstrong
#68. High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.
Mollie Marti
#69. If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.
Julian Baggini
#70. Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
Jan Karon
#71. Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Alain De Botton
#72. Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
Tony Blair
#73. Bah, cynics," said Dr. Meescham. "Cynics are people who are afraid to believe.
Kate DiCamillo
#74. The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
Marianne Moore
#75. What if each child was taught from the cradle to sing the song of peace...would the cynics not call it foolish, saying that to be gentle is to be weak? But I tell you that until we are as innocent and pure as doves, our journey will be long and the way dark. Raise doves, not wolves.
Joann Davis
#76. Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.
Doug Batchelor
#77. We are called to have faith, even in the darkest hour, and not grow faint or join with the cynics and the mockers." C.S. Lewis
Lara Giesbers
#78. America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
Barack Obama
#79. Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.
Donald Keough
#80. Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.
Tracy McMillan
#81. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
Stephen Colbert
#82. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Peter M. Senge
#83. Who said it was thieves who know the price of everything and the value of nothing?"
"Oscar Wilde," I said. "And it's cynics, not thieves."
"Ah! That explains it, then.
Heidi Heilig
#84. Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt ... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
#86. I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish
Jamie Oliver
#87. The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#88. I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
Peter Hook
#89. The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.
Nicholas Sparks
#90. [N]obody is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics can not relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the word [sic] has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude.
Muriel Barbery
#91. Spirits ... Ghosts ... Angels ... whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.
Lucinda Riley
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