It may be half full of water, precious in itself, but in the other half there's a rainbow that could exist only in the vacant space. I have matured into someone I never dreamed I would become: an unbridled optimist who sees the glass as always full of something. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor Heinlein, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long, 1973Īn optimist sees a silver lining to every cloud a pessimist bites the silver to see if it is real. once he had been too optimistic since that time he had been a pessimist as a fixed policy. ~Gil Stern, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1971Ī pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Robert Braultīoth optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Charles Edward Locke, "Seeing the Blue in the Sky," Daybreak Everywhere, 1919 I should rather be an optimist, even incurring some danger of fanaticism. I would not be a pessimist with the clammy sweat of death and fear always on my brow. ~William Arthur Ward, Thoughts of a Christian Optimist, 1968 To the optimist, all doors have handles and hinges to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches. Optimism is the sunshine - pessimism is the shadow. To know the disillusionments of life, and to come enchanted still. You can look at optimism and pessimism as two different outfits in your closet, and you decide each morning which one you're going to wear. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long, 1973 Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament. ~William George Jordan, The Crown of Individuality, 1909 Optimism is the sunshine of the soul radiated in action. Optimism Quotes, Pessimism, Optimists, Pessimists The Quote Garden ™
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