The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the poss…

- 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

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics …

- Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

I write to discover what I think.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

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

- Daniel J. Boorstin

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their l…

- Daniel J. Boorstin