Cynicism Quotes - Page 11

• Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

  Henry Rollins

  Intellectual, Sloth

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• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Frank Herbert

  Kindness, Cruelty, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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• People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

  Anna Faris

  Character, Play, Doe

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• The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Wall, Shelter, Lovers

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

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• Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Racist, Literature, Opinion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

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• Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

  Douglas Horton

  Lying, Giving, Buying

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• Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.

  Jack Heffron

  Writing, Pages, Way

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• The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

  George E. P. Box

  Cynical, Empowerment, Management

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• I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

  Paul Auster

  Hate, Thinking, Age

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• Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cynical, Adultery, Stage

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• "Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

  John Brunner

  Eye, Cynical, Pay

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• Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

  Dean McLaughlin

  Running, Shelter, Welcome

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• The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Hands, Surrealism

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• The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

  Garrison Keillor

  Color, Numbers, Green

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• The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Giving, Anonymity

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

  Douglas Horton

  Cooperation, Teach, Altruism

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

  Jean Renoir

  World, Reason, Terrible

  "Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews".

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• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Witty, Rude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

  Vera Farmiga

  Ignorance, Doubt, Middle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

  Evan Davis

  Funny, Humor, Car

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• Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

  William Safire

  Ignorance, Thought Provoking, Empathy

  William Safire (1981). “On language”

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• In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

  Jonathan Alter

  Men, Media, Sky

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.

  Mike Zimmer

  Success, People, Needs

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• By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Crazy, Lying, Believe

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