What did Barbara Tuchman mean by: The power to command frequently causes failure to think. - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA Copy
+ satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Exaggeration, Reality, Satire, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, History, Poetry, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Books are humanity in print. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Book, Human, Print, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Conditions, Writing, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ War is the unfolding of miscalculations. Feraz Zeid, July 13, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Military, Peace, War, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Breaking Down, Gaps, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Heard, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Book, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands. - Matt Haig Author · United Kingdom
Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing. - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. - George Eliot Author · England
