Barbara Tuchman Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

  Barbara Tuchman

  Past, History, Tree

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.26, Random House

• The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Fighting, History, Police

• To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

  Barbara Tuchman

  History, Smoking, Events

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.25, Random House

• 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

  War, Sea, History

• In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Peace, History, Historical

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.210, Random House

• Completeness is rare in history.

  Barbara Tuchman

  History, Completeness

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.116, Random House

• The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

  Barbara Tuchman

  People, History, Poetry

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