Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

乐观主义者和悲观主义者之间的区别是可笑的。乐观者看到甜甜圈;悲观主义者的洞!

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Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

有些人认为,我们对世界和我们自己的看法在世界内部发生了巨大的变化。另一些人则观察到,在相对较短的时间内,出现了几乎完全的转变。

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

我是一个乐观主义者,不后悔,好战。毕竟,为了不做一个傻瓜,乐观主义者必须知道这个世界会有多么悲伤。只有悲观主义者每天才会重新发现这一点。

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

希望和乐观肯定不是一回事。不是坚信某事会有好结果,而是确信某事有意义,不管结果如何。

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

当一扇门关上时,另一扇门就会打开;但是我们常常对那扇关上的门望得那么久,那么遗憾,以致于我们没有看到那扇为我们打开的门。

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

大多数思维上的错误是感知上的不足,而不是逻辑上的错误。