6 Quotes by Daniel Boorstin

What an amateur is, is a lover of a subject. I’m a lover of facts. The fact is the savior, as long as you don’t jam it into some preconceived pattern. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God.

When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

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

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.