Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Teacher

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Fun, Knowledge, Science

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

• Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Commodity, Increase

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Information, Miscellaneous

  "Gresham's Law: Knowledge or Information?". Daniel J. Boorstin's remarks at the White House conference on library and information services in Washington, D.C., November 19, 1979.

• More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Feelings

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.92, Vintage

• The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Technology, Fog

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission". Interview with Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

• Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Wisdom, Reading, Creativity

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