Means Progress Quotes by Hendrik Willem van Loon

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• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -…
• In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will…
• High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred…
• A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
• An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
• Life means progress, and progress means suffering.
• It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.
• ....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as…
• The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
• In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for…
• Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for…

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