My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.