Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
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
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
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 traitor. But place you… - 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 a traitor. But place you…
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
Life means progress, and progress means suffering. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Life means progress, and progress means suffering.
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
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 gates of th… - 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 the gates of th…
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question … - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question …
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