...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Faith for Living, (1940). Often quoted as "Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.", e.g, Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 112.Lewis Mumford
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Pessimists are just realistic optimists.
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Optimists are badly informed pessimists.
Anonymous
To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.
David Levy
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.
Shimon Peres
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