Optimism and Pessimism (by famous people)

by Roman Soluk on July 28, 2009


Some interesting quotes of famous people about these lifestyles:

- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)

- What is pessimism? The result of meeting of two different optimists. (Stanislav Ezhi Lets)

- The world belongs to optimists, pessimists are only spectators. (François Guizot)

- Everything is not so bad as it seems. It’s much worse. :-) (Bill Press)

- Optimist is a person who precisely knows how bad the world can be; and for pessimist it’s the news every single morning. (Peter Ustinov)

- If you see a light in the end of a tunnel, it means that you are looking in wrong direction. (Barry Commoner)

- Often in difficult life situations, pessimism takes away the last braveness. (Alfred Adler)

- Pessimism is when knowledge is bigger than belief, and optimism – when belief is bigger than knowledge. (Baurzhan Tojshibekov)

- Original optimism is based NOT upon the belief that everything will be good, but on the belief, that everything won’t be so bad. (Jean Djutur)

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