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Daniel J. Boorstin

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

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"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

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"I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words."

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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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"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."
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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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