0ptimism Quotes & Sayings
These optimism quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome. - Marcel Proust
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. - Enoch Arnold Bennett
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. - Oscar Wilde
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Luther Powell
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. - Hermann Hesse
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. - Roberto Rossellini
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel