TOP 20 Barbara Tuchman Quotes

TOP 20 Barbara Tuchman Quotes.

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:00)

“Books are humanity in print.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:07)

“Above all, discard the irrelevant.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:14)

“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:21)

“Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:28)

“Human behavior is timeless.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:35)

“One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:42)

“The power to command frequently causes failure to think.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:49)

“For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.”
— Barbara Tuchman (00:56)

“Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:03)

“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:10)

“To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:17)

“In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:24)

“To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:31)

“The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:38)

“The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:45)

“For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:52)

“The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians...”
— Barbara Tuchman (01:59)

“Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.”
— Barbara Tuchman (02:06)

“The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.”
— Barbara Tuchman (02:13)

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