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Famous Barbara Tuchman Quotes
“in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight”
“The power to command frequently causes failure to think.”
“To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.”
“The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.”
“Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.”
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced”
“When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.”
“Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.”
“I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.”
“Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.”
“Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.”
“Honor wears different coats to different eyes.”