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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
There is no known device for artistic contraception.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
![Daniel Boorstin Quotes By Daniel J. Boorstin: [Reading is like] the sex act - done](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/daniel-boorstin-quotes-by-daniel-j-boorstin-1624621.jpg "Daniel Boorstin Quotes By Daniel J. Boorstin: [Reading is like] the sex act - done")
[Reading is like] the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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!'
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.
— Orrin Woodward
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I write to discover what I think
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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
There is no disinfectant like success.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.
— Daniel J. Boorstin