James Randi Quotes

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.