Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989). Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them. Mason Cooley (1927-2002), American aphorist. CYNIC PHILOSOPHY QUOTES FULL
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Stephen Colbert, Knox College Commencement Address (3 June 2006). Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Charlie Chaplin, in The Great Dictator (1940). Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil's Dictionary (1911). A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Henry Ward Beecher, in Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects (1860) Lecture IV : Portrait Gallery. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. Cynic: An idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision. Maya Angelou, as quoted in The Truth in Words (2005) by Neal Zero. 
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ Paul Horgan The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. ~ José Ortega y Gasset Our knowledge has made us cynical. 
~ David Hume This cynic did nothing but saboter the civilisation of the time. This principle is, that all benevolence is mere hypocrisy, friendship a cheat, public spirit a farce, fidelity a snare to procure trust and confidence and that while all of us, at bottom, pursue only our private interest, we wear these fair disguises, in order to put others off their guard, and expose them the more to our wiles and machinations. ~ Theodore Roosevelt There is a principle, supposed to prevail among many, which is utterly incompatible with all virtue or moral sentiment and as it can proceed from nothing but the most depraved disposition, so in its turn it tends still further to encourage that depravity. ~ Theodore Roosevelt A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt.
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