Famous quotes containing the words optimist and/or creed:
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)