37 Quotations by Daniel J. Boorstin
- 21. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

- 22. The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for w ...

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

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

- 25. The great obstacle is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

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

- 27. The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no con ...

- 28. The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both ...

- 29. The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of Ameri ...

- 30. The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provi ...

- 31. The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-an ...

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

- 33. There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world tod ...

- 34. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- 35. We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesti ...

- 36. We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to ...

- 37. What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fea ...

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