I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.