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Top 20 Hendrik Willem van Loon Quotes (2025 Update)

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “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 once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”

1. “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 once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.”

2. “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

3. “For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.”

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

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “Life means progress, and progress means suffering.”

5. “Life means progress, and progress means suffering.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”

6. “The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.”

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

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.”

8. “The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can be done.”

9. “History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can be done.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership – who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.”

10. “The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership – who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “Never worry about what may happen tomorrow, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it won’t. And don’t take things too seriously, for very few things are worth it.”

11. “Never worry about what may happen tomorrow, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it won’t. And don’t take things too seriously, for very few things are worth it.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “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 yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.”

12. “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 yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “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 all things and made ‘knowledge and understanding’ the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.”

13. “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 all things and made ‘knowledge and understanding’ the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.”

14. “In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.”

15. “The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “He was like one of those elderly gentlemen in Central Park who go around feeding birds and squirrels. Their pockets are filled with everything these small creatures may like to eat. The birds and the squirrels sense this and they perch on the shoulders of their benefactors and climb all over them in quest of what they consider their legitimate belongings.”

16. “He was like one of those elderly gentlemen in Central Park who go around feeding birds and squirrels. Their pockets are filled with everything these small creatures may like to eat. The birds and the squirrels sense this and they perch on the shoulders of their benefactors and climb all over them in quest of what they consider their legitimate belongings.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “But in practical politics, it does not matter what is true, but everything depends upon what the people believe to be true.”

17. “But in practical politics, it does not matter what is true, but everything depends upon what the people believe to be true.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.”

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

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.”

19. “It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “As if any of us could bear to live in a world of unadulterated truth!”

20. “As if any of us could bear to live in a world of unadulterated truth!”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “Martyrs are the best possible advertisements for an unpopular cause.”

21. “Martyrs are the best possible advertisements for an unpopular cause.”

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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quote: “For youth can no more live without some kind of hero than it can without its daily supply of fresh air and vitamins.”

22. “For youth can no more live without some kind of hero than it can without its daily supply of fresh air and vitamins.”

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

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