Famous Quotes

Quotes by 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.
• An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
• As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
• Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
• Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
• The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
• The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
• The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
• 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.'
• Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.