160 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.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing.

There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

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

The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.

The shadow has become the substance.

Much of what we have been doing to improve the world's opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which we have sent over the world are primary aids to the belief in the irrelevance, the arrogance, the rigidity, and the conceit of America. Not because they are poorly made. On the contrary, because they are well made and vividly projected. Not because they are favorable images or unfavorable images, but because they are images.