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> [It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/it-is-little-enough-we-know-and-the-rest-is-darkness/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

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## More by Hendrik Willem van Loon

> [Life means progress, and progress means suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/life-means-progress-and-progress-means-suffering/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/an-ignorant-person-is-by-the-very-fact-of-his-or-her-ignorance-a-very/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/nature-is-rarely-allowed-to-enter-the-sacred-portals-of-civilized/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/history-is-the-mighty-tower-of-experience-which-time-has-built-amidst/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/on-the-other-hand-when-you-grow-up-you-will-discover-that-some-of-the/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/in-such-a-case-the-writer-is-apt-to-have-recourse-to-epigrams/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/in-history-as-in-life-it-is-success-that-counts-start-a-political/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/the-world-is-in-dreadful-need-of-men-who-will-assume-the-new/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/high-in-the-north-in-a-land-called-svithjod-there-is-a-mountain-it-is/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/a-few-drops-of-science-will-often-disinfect-an-entire-barrel-full-of/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/the-arts-are-an-even-better-barometer-of-what-is-happening-in-our/)

[Hendrik Willem Van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/somewhere-in-the-world-there-is-an-epigram-for-every-dilemma/)

[Hendrik Willem Van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [“The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/the-history-of-man-is-the-record-of-a-hungry-creature-in-search-of/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/it-is-little-enough-we-know-and-the-rest-is-darkness/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

> [Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-willem-van-loon/great-art-is-the-result-of-the-labours-of-thousands-of-faithful/)

[Hendrik Willem van Loon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hendrik-willem-van-loon/)

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