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

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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

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Any 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 Loon

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It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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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.

Hendrik Willem van Loon

Tag: humor ignorance adulthood maturity republicans adults republican trump mature republican-party-united-states cave-man caveman cave-men cavemen

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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 Loon

Tag: hypocrisy respect tolerance

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