Caught Quote by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward”

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

— 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.

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

— 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…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon