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Daniel J. Boorstin

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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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

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The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

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The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

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