Thoreau on Useful Ignorance

By Mike Schultz in quotation on

> Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of…

Aging

By Mike Schultz in juxtaposition on

Ran across this stunning quotation today > I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. > Virginia Woolf (born on this date in 1882) Earlier in the day I listened to a profile of Mark Furstenburg [http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/…