The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.”
“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.”
“The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to make his home. - Page 22”
“It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.”
“For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”
“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward”
“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.”
“Martyrs are the best possible advertisements for an unpopular cause.”
“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.”
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