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Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
— Daniel J. Boorstin learning
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin knowledge
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
— Daniel J. Boorstin people
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
— Daniel J. Boorstin age
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin knowledge
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
— Daniel J. Boorstin greatness
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
— Daniel J. Boorstin life
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
— Daniel J. Boorstin you
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 reality
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
— Daniel J. Boorstin men
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 book
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
— Daniel J. Boorstin love
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
— Daniel J. Boorstin thought
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
— Daniel J. Boorstin hero
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 knowledge
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
— Daniel J. Boorstin think
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
— Daniel J. Boorstin service
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin person
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 world
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
— Daniel J. Boorstin book
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin world
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
— Daniel J. Boorstin man
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
— Daniel J. Boorstin man
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
— Daniel J. Boorstin sex
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
— Daniel J. Boorstin good
Education is learning what you didnt even know you didnt know.
— Daniel J Boorstin learning

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