Daniel J. Boorstin's Profile
Brief about Daniel J. Boorstin: By info that we know Daniel J. Boorstin was born at 1914-10-01. And also Daniel J. Boorstin is American Historian.
Some Daniel J. Boorstin's quotes. Goto "Daniel J. Boorstin's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: America, Experience, SimpleWe read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
Tags: Knowing, Read, WantedThe greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Tags: Ignorance, Knowledge, WisdomA wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Tags: Book, Computers, WonderfulSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Tags: Great, Greatness, PublicI write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Tags: After, Open, WriteAn 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.
Tags: Design, Picture, ServiceThe 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.'
Tags: Experience, Him, TravelAs individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Tags: America, Love, NationFreedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Tags: Freedom, Means, ThoughtA sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Tags: Name, Often, WorthTechnology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Tags: Fun, Knowledge, TechnologyWe 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.
Tags: Place, Put, RealityWe 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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