All Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
- The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally… Adventure
- Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with… Actors
- Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,… American
- Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of… All
- Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet… Character
- In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid… Admired
- 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… Agnostic
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. Achieve
- 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… Agnostic
- I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. Ad
- We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always readyeven eagerto discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we… Advertisements