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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Daniel J. Boorstin
American
Historian
Born:
Oct 1
,
1914
Died:
Feb 28
,
2004
Bed
Celebrity
Experience
His
Knowledge
World
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge
Ignorance
Illusion
Obstacle
Greatest
Greatest Obstacle
Discovery
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
Our
Those
Weaknesses
Haunted
Put
Primarily
Vices
Place
Suffer
Illusions
Images
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge
Technology
Fog
Drive
Our
Out
Drown
So Much Fun
Information
Much
Fun
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Politics
You
Lie
Must
Make
Bed
Your
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Great
Achieve
Relations
Some
Born
Hire
Greatness
Officers
Public
Public Relations
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Worth
Sign
More
Name
His
Celebrity
Than
Often
Famous
Services
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Time
Heroes
Makes
Celebrities
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
God
World
Responsibility
See
Making
Shifted
Interesting
Newspaperman
Theologians
Need
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
Travel
Experience
People
Active
He
Tourist
Adventure
Him
Passive
Expects
Goes
Happen
Interesting
Interesting Things
Search
Traveler
Things
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
Diffusion
Increases
On The Contrary
Never
Simply
Another
Up
Contrary
Commodity
Used
Grows
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Word
Power
Other
Advertising
Force
Dwarf
Literature
Century
Image
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Book
Sold
Best-Seller
Somehow
Well
Because
Selling
Which
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
Fool
Genius
Bad
Write
Takes
Learned
Real
His
Off
Hands
Any
Keep
Ad
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