Quotes on optimist

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else....

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I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

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