cynical mindset Quotes

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.

...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

We must break the cycle of cynicism that has hold of many of our youth.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.