What did Barbara Tuchman mean by: The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA Copy
+ Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Feraz Zeid, June 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Doors, Library, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Hindsight, War, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Moments, Speech, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Attention, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Library, Muse, Shelter, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy. Feraz Zeid, June 28, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Argument, Desire, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Comfort, Military, Mind, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Book, Civilization, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Explain - Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. - Lewis Thomas Physician · USA
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. - George A. Moore Writer · Ireland