Famous quotes containing the words optimist and/or creed:
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)