Cynicism Quotes - Page 6

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Cynicism is for lightweights.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing you have to keep embracing. You have to keep saying, I actually don't know, and going out is going to tell me something every time.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

Cynicism's always a pose - always.

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.