Unfounded Optimism Quotes

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals — and sometimes populations — not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfounded, supports the lover who counts on a reconciliation, a letter.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.