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 LoonTags: education society willful-ignorance ignorance hendrick-van-loon
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 LoonAny frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession: their ignorance
Hendrik Willem van LoonIt is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.
Hendrik Willem van LoonOn 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.
Hendrik Willem van LoonTags: humor ignorance adulthood maturity republicans adults republican trump mature republican-party-united-states cave-man caveman cave-men cavemen
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.
Hendrik Willem van LoonTags: hypocrisy respect tolerance
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