“To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.”
David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
“To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.”
Epilogue, p. 242
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)
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“[…] You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic
Page 352-353.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“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
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Variant: Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973) British writer
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As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American politician
As quoted in FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ”
Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American politician
