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John Dewey on the True Purpose of Education and How to Harness the Power of Our Natural Curiosity
“While it is not the business of education … to teach every possible item of information, it is its business to cultivate deep-seated and effective habits of discriminating tested beliefs from mere assertions, guesses, and opinions.”
The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”
Keep Your Baby Eyes: Legendary Journalist Lincoln Steffens’s Beautiful Letter of Advice to His Son on the Power of Not-Knowing
“Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know.”
How We Think: John Dewey on the Art of Reflection and Fruitful Curiosity in an Age of Instant Opinions and Information Overload
“To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry — these are the essentials of thinking.”
Leonard Shlain on Integrating Wonder and Wisdom at the Intersection of Art and Physics
“Art and physics, like wave and particle, are an integrated duality … two different but complementary facets of a single description of the world.”
Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities
“Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”
Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness
How to counter the gradual narrowing of our horizons.
Reconfiguring Reality: An Atlas of Alternative Maps by Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Damien Hirst, John Maeda, Kevin Kelly, John Baldessari, and Other Icons
“Maps are errors to arrive at truth.”
David Foster Wallace on Writing, Self-Improvement, and How We Become Who We Are
“Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.”
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