Hendrik Willem van Loon

“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.”

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

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

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

“Tolerance is the highest result of education.”

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

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

“Safety is a dangerous and incalculable illusion.”

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

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

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

“Progress is a comfortable disease.”

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