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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes



Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin - (19 quotes)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Books category:

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Courage category:

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding colour and suspense to all our lives. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Desire category:

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Discovery category:

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Education category:

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Education category:

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Fame category:

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Freedom category:

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Greatness category:

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Illusion category:

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Imagination category:

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Information category:

The fog of information can drive out knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Knowledge category:

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Religion category:

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Selling category:

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Technology category:

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Travel category:

The traveler is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him... (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Unknowns category:

There is no known device for artistic contraception. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Daniel J. Boorstin - From the Writing category:

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. (Daniel J. Boorstin)