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Letter "O" » optimist
«An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
color-blind, colorblind, green, green light, optimist, pessimist, red, red light, stoplight
«An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.»
«A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.»
Author: Chauncey Depew
(Industrialist, Politician)
| About:
Funny,
Men and Women,
Optimism
| Keywords:
all women, hopes, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, thinks
«A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
clouds, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, moped, mopes, moping, optimist, pessimist, philosopher, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sides, The Clouds, The Dark, walking
«An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
blow, optimist, pessimist
«An optimist is the human personification of spring.»
«A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties»
«A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, been, has-been, intimately, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists
«A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.»
«At fifty a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass»
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