"While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is……" — Daniel J. Boorstin
"While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous."
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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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More Cumulative Quotes
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here…
— Learned Hand
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
— Stephen Covey
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What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They…
— Donald Cram
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Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;…
— John Ruskin
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Success action is cumulative in its results.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By…
— Plato
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All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who…
— Camara Laye
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The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth,…
— George Saunders
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