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Letter "P" » pessimism
«Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.»
«Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom»
«The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
first period, pessimism, prolific, thereabouts, twenty one
«We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.»
«When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.»
«Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.»
«Pessimism never won any battle.»
«Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.»
«Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
optimism, pessimism, weakness
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