High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak.… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward” — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon Copy Share Image
