If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
Enough to know no knowing.
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
I don't believe in pessimism.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!
Pessimism is rife in Israel.
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.
It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
