Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

time

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image

celebrity

We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image

fame

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
— Daniel J. Boorstin Democracy and Its Discontents

education

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image

example

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

fame

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world.  A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world.  A "best seller" is a celebrity among books.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image

best-seller

Books are messengers of freedom.  They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Books are messengers of freedom.  They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
— Daniel J. Boorstin Books in Our Future

books

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
— Daniel J. Boorstin Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women

imagination

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

technology

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 quote.
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 The Image

newspapers

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin Cleopatra’s Nose

progress

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Discoverers

ignorance

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 quote.
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 Image

God

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

knowledge ignorance

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image

novels

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 place of reality. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
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 place of reality.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

illusion

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel—movement through space—provided the universal metaphor for change. - Daniel J. Boorstin quote.
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel—movement through space—provided the universal metaphor for change.
— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image

Travel

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin in Washington Post

discovery

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

knowledge