Cynic Quotes
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.
He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths.
Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.
Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.""We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
