Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

Reality is a question of perspective.

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

There are many levels of truth.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.