Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

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

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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

I write to discover what I think.

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless..We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful and merciful, active and reflective, kind and competitive. We expect to be inspired by mediocre appeals for excellence, to be made literate by illiterate appeals for literacy...to go to 'a church of our choice' and yet feel its guiding power over us, to revere God and to be God. Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.