„Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.“
As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)
Shimon Peres6
politico israeliano 1923 - 2016Citazioni simili
„[…] You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.“
— Malcolm Bradbury English author and academic 1932 - 2000
Page 352-353.
Stepping Westward (1965)
„A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.“
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
„To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.“
— David H. Levy Canadian astronomer 1948
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
„Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.“
— Stanisław Jerzy Lec, libro Unkempt Thoughts
p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
Variante: Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
— Irving Caesar American composer and lyricist 1895 - 1996
This is actually James Branch Cabell from The Silver Stallion (1926)
Misattributed
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
Epilogue, p. 242
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)
— Gladys Bronwyn Stern British writer 1890 - 1973
Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p. 41
„Be an optimist! It’s the only way to live.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Summertide
Origine: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)
— James Branch Cabell American author 1879 - 1958
Coth, in Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Ch. XXVI : The Realist in Defeat
Origine: The Silver Stallion (1926)
Contesto: Yet creeds mean very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
„I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.“
— William Golding British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1911 - 1993
— Kamila Shamsie Pakistani writer 1973
Origine: On balancing pessimism and optimism in “Kamila Shamsie: 'We have to find reasons for optimism’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/08/kamila-shamsie-we-have-to-find-reasons-for-optimism-home-fire in The Guardian (2018 Jun 8)
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Ideas and Opinions
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
„A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.“
— Edward Abbey, libro Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives (1990)
„A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
„Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.“
— Idries Shah, libro Reflections
Origine: Reflections
