"We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge……" — Daniel J. Boorstin
"We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires."
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91 Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin has 91 quotes on this site.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed…
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously…
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality,…
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
— David Brinkley
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I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in…
— William S. Burroughs
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in…
— Marina Abramovic
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
— Mark Twain
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is…
— Phil Dusenberry
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Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot…
— Blake Mycoskie
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication…
— Theodor Adorno
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention…
— Samuel Johnson
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