Cynical Quotes - Page 2

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.

The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

J. Courtney Sullivan

A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.

François Maspero

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

François de La Rochefoucauld