Top 27 Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

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

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.