Daniel J. Boorstin Short Quotes

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Statistics have tended to make facts into norms.

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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

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We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

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A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

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While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

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The world of crime... is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

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No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

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The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

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Truth has been displaced by believability as the test of the statements that dominate our lives.

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Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

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The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

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The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

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

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The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

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The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

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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.

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

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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!'

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A pseudo-events comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

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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.

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When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington's birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

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