Hendrik Willem van Loon

“Man is a migratory animal. He has been a wanderer since the dawn of his day.”

“Tolerance is the highest result of education.”

“The true history of the human race is the history of its ideas.”

“Ideas, as a rule, are never startling. They are usually very simple.”

“Progress is a comfortable disease.”

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

“Safety is a dangerous and incalculable illusion.”

“For the world is a hard place, and it is a good thing to have a friend to help you.”

“It is a question of taste, and taste, as a last resort, is a matter of personal preferences.”

“The average man wants to be led. He is sick of watchful waiting. He wants to be told what to do and he will follow a man who is not afraid to tell him what to do.”

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

“History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages.”

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.”