Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.