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Knowledge Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
- If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction…
- 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.
- Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
- The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
- While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
- 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…
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