“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
Alexander McCall Smith book Morality for Beautiful Girls
Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls
Variant: it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
Source: Number the Stars
“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
Alexander McCall Smith book Morality for Beautiful Girls
Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls
Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 7, "A machine for jumping to conclusions", page 87 (ISBN 9780141033570).
“Do not the brave know
The greatness of their progeny?”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: Do not the brave know
The greatness of their progeny?
A country present will meet thee,
And while it may possibly be yours,
Three hundred thousand years save one,
A short hour of the day of everlasting life.
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 393, Page 180
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8
Kid Cudi (1984) American rapper, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor from Ohio
-Enter Galactic
Music
“You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Responding to the difficulties of governing Texas, "The Taming of Texas," Governing Magazine (July 1998) http://www.governing.com/archive/1998/jul/bush.txt; also cited in Is our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush (2000) by Paul Begala.) <br class="br">1990s