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pessimistic
«If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.»
Author: Hazel Henderson
| Keywords:
basic principle, greet, pessimistic, transformation, uncertainty, undergoing
«When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.»
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Attitude,
Optimism,
Positive thinking,
Vision
| Keywords:
affects, optimistic, pessimistic
«I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.»
Author: E. B. White
| Keywords:
accommodated, appreciatively, dictatorially, ingenious, pessimistic, skeptically, submission, viewed
«Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Life,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
pessimistic, way out
«If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.»
«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»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
hoping, optimistic, pessimistic
«A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
believer, determinist, lunch, pessimistic