37 Quotations by Daniel J. Boorstin
- 1. A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

- 2. A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

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

- 4. America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered w ...

- 5. An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a stud ...

- 6. As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancest ...

- 7. Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet, we confuse them every day. By doing ...

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

- 9. Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

- 10. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowled ...

- 11. I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on ...

- 12. In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he co ...

- 13. In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion ...

- 14. It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to ...

- 15. Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- ...

- 16. More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

- 17. Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journ ...

- 18. Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journ ...

- 19. Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of t ...

- 20. Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio an ...

Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes by Power Quotations
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