Quotes from Daniel Boorstin

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

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire good PR.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.