Optimistic Quotes - Page 18
"The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" by John Brockman, Barnes & Noble Publishing, (p. 31), 2003.
'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48
The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8
In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.299, Macmillan
Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.377, Courier Corporation
Optimist ā A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1473, Delphi Classics