Or even -
The true delight is in the finding out, rather than in the knowing.
-- Issac Asimov
..but with a modrin overlay,
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
-- George Bernard Shaw
or maybe simply,
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
-- TS Eliot
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Gotta Love GBS; once there were wise people about - then we outsourced them all - for amusing transistors.