Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes About Knowledge
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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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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.
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The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
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More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
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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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The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
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While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
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