Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Epilogue, p. 242
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)
“[…] You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.”
Page 352-353.
Stepping Westward (1965)
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Shimon Peres (1923–2016) Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of Israel
As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)
“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
William Golding (1911–1993) British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Irving Caesar (1895–1996) American composer and lyricist
This is actually James Branch Cabell from The Silver Stallion (1926)
Misattributed
“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
Coth, in Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Ch. XXVI : The Realist in Defeat
Source: The Silver Stallion (1926)
Context: Yet creeds mean very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
“To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.”
David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
