160 Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.