Cynicism Quotes - Page 2

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

Cynicism has its own zealots.

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.