Entry in progress—B.P.
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that the pessimist is better informed” is another form of the same saying.
22 November 1967, Citizen Times (Cedar Rapids, IA), pg. 6, col. 6:
Betcha Didn’t Know..
...that a pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
24 December 1967, Dallas (TX) Morning News, “Las Vegas Scene” by Forrest Duke, pg. 3D, col. 3:
Incidentally, young Frank (Sinatra, Jr.—ed.) defines a pessimist as a well-informed optimist.
Google Books
Proceedings
Volume 53
American Law Institute
1976
Pg. 378:
MR. HERSHMAN: Do you know that in New York a pessimist is a well-informed optimist?
PROFESSOR CASNER: What is that?
MR. HERSHMAN: A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
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The Uncertain Course:
New Weapons, Strategies and Mind-Sets
By C. Carl G. Jacobsen
New York, NY: Oxford University Press
1987
Pg. 91:
There is an old Israeli proverb that a pessimist is really a well-informed optimist.
Google Books
The Soviet Union:
Empire, Nation, and System
By Aron Kat︠s︡enelinboĭgen
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers
1990
Pg. 384:
There is a joke going around in the Soviet Union that “a pessimist is a well-informed optimist.”
Google Books
Russia’s Policy Challenges:
Security, Stability, and Development
By Stephen K. Wegren
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
2003
Pg. 190:
Russians have even come to joke that a pessimist in their country is simply a well-informed optimist.
Google Books
Tiny Revolutions in Russia:
Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes
By Bruce Adams
New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon
2005
Pg. 64:
389. “What is the difference between a pessimist and an optimist?”
AR: “A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. An optimist is a well-instructed pessimist.”
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@tomanis28
Know the difference between optimist and pessimist? Pessimist is just a well-informed optimist. Lets all be pessimists from time to time
4:14 PM - 24 Aug 2015
Charlotte, NC
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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