All Hendrik Willem van Loon Quotes
- Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. Always Ready
- In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a… All
- 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… Beak
- A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. Barrel
- An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. Dangerous
- Life means progress, and progress means suffering. Life
- It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness. Darkness
- ....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making… Beacon
- The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. Bread
- In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma. Apt
- Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. Allowed
- Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the… Anything Else
- The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. Art
- Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. Dilemma