Cynic Quotes - Page 5

• Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  Carl Icahn

  Democracy, Boards, Corporate

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• This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

  Che Guevara

  Running, Dream, Mean

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Running, Worst Enemy, Skills

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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

  George Berkeley

  Nastiness, Christianity, Cynicism

  George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178

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• 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.

  Jane Anderson

  Spiritual, Soul, Matter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

  Heywood Broun

  God, Football, Sides

  Heywood Broun (1921). “Seeing things at night”

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• who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

  Ursula Curtiss

  Gratitude, Definitions, Favors

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• Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

  Boy George

  Disappointed

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Names, Realist, Cynicism

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• I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.

  Scott Crow

  Dreamer, Dies

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• I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: collider.com

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• "Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

  Stefano Benni

  Realist, Optimist

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• I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

  John Lennon

  Love Life, Government, Cynical

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• 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.

  John Reuben Zappin

  Boys, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Feelings, Impossible

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• That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to Tomaž Šalamun's famous line, "Every true poet is a monster." Or why Richard Hugo writes that the imagination is a cynic. T

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Names, Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Cynical, Realist

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• 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.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Eye, Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Oliver Stone

  Strong, School, Nihilism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Depressing, Hate, Moving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Pedants, Philosopher

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Fear, Past, Lessons

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• My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
  which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

  Burt Rutan

  Lying, Airplane, Data

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• 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.

  R. C. Sproul

  Cynical, Battle, Cynicism

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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