Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
Most popular Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
![War is the unfolding of miscalculations. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/12/41912A-war-is-the-unfolding-of-miscalculations-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
![History is the unfolding of miscalculation. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/28/15328A-history-is-the-unfolding-of-miscalculation-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
History is the unfolding of miscalculation.
![Honor wears different coats to different eyes. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/68/32868A-honor-wears-different-coats-to-different-eyes-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
![To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/30/34630A-to-a-historian-libraries-are-food-shelter-even-muse-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
![Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/90/39190A-satire-is-a-wrapping-of-exaggeration-around-core-reality-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
![What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/81/30681A-what-his-imagination-is-to-the-poet-facts-are-historian-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian.
![The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/26/32826A-the-poets-have-familiarized-more-people-with-history-than-have-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
![Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/56/15356A-every-successful-revolution-puts-on-in-time-robes-tyrant-it-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
![The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/61/37961A-the-appetite-for-power-is-old-irrepressible-humankind-its-action-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
![Wisdom—meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/74/42074A-wisdom-meaning-judgment-acting-on-experience-common-sense-available-knowledge-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Wisdom—meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
![Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/51/31251A-chief-among-the-forces-affecting-political-folly-is-lust-power-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."
![Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others—only to lose it over themselves. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/52/31252A-government-remains-the-paramount-area-of-folly-because-it-is-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others—only to lose it over themselves.
![Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/93/14493A-books-are-the-carriers-of-civilization-without-books-history-is-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
![There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/25/32825A-there-is-no-such-thing-as-neutral-or-purely-objective-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides.
![The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair. - Barbara W. Tuchman quote.](/img/q/69/37069A-the-story-and-study-of-the-past-both-recent-distant-barbara-w-tuchman.png)
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.