“Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.”
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
“Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.”
“Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.”