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Daniel J. Boorstin [1914-2004] American

Rank: 101
Historian

Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago, writing on many topics in American history and world history. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Library of Congress Center for the Book.

Knowledge, Famous, Computers, Courage, Design, Education, Experience, Freedom, Great, Imagination, Learning, Politics, Technology, Time, Travel, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.	Education, Learning	101
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.	Knowledge, Wisdom	102
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.		103
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.	Knowledge, Technology	104
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.	Great	105
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.		106
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'	Experience, Travel	107
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.	Freedom	108
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.	Courage, Imagination	109
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.		110
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.	Knowledge	111
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.	Design	112
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.		113
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.		114
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.	Famous	115
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.		116
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.		117
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.		118
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.	Famous	119
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.	Politics	120
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.		121
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.		122
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.	Computers	123
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.		124
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.		125
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.		126
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.	Time	201

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