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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
American Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 1, 1914
Date of Death:
February 28, 2004
Nationality:
American
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Select Daniel J. Boorstin Quotations:
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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.
Daniel J. Boorstin


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Authentic, Crime, Event, Last, Refuge, Spontaneous, Uncorrupted, World
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