Quotes About Cynicism

More a person shows the people their true face, more number of ways most of them will devise to prove him wrong always.

The more a person gets altruistically truthful to help the fools, the more they will ignore and sometimes even ridicule him

When a fox gives the sermon, the wolves are largely there in the congregation to offer him a fake appreciation on his oration and quotation, but later on that audience only makes a big fun of him in his absence.

When audiences rejected Ace in the Hole, Wilder said: "F*** them all. It's the best picture I ever made.

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I never wanted to see another quiz show.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.

If I ever try to get married again, shoot me.

It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

Cinismul este singura form? prin care sufletele obiÅŸnuite acced la ceea ce se numeÅŸte onestitate; iar omul superior, aflându-se în prezenta cinismului, fie el mai grosolan sau mai rafinat, trebuie s?-ÅŸi ciuleasc? urechile ÅŸi s? se felicite de fiece dat? când chiar în faÅ£a lui prinde glas bufonul cel neruÅŸinat sau satirul ÅŸtiinÅ£ific.

Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness.

El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty; and the higher man must listen closely to every coarse or subtle cynicism, and congratulate himself when a clown without shame or a scientific satyr speaks out precisely in front of him.

Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists one year, idealists the next; cynics for another period, and Eberals for still another. They have their quivers full of arrows but no fixed target. As no game makes the hunter tired of the sport, so the want of destiny makes the mind bored with life.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars;