160 Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.