Quote

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I'm a traditionalist.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.