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Letter "B" » Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
«Books are humanity in print.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
books, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, out of print, print, prints
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, civilization, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, dumber, dumbest, history of science, literature, speculation, speculations, standstill
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, engines, erected, erecting, erects, history of science, lighthouse, lighthouses, literature, sea change, speculation, speculations, standstill, The Lighthouse, The Sea, windows
«To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.»
«Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.»
«The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.»
«Honor wears different coats to different eyes.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| Keywords:
coats
«Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| Keywords:
assassination, Caesar, governing, opponents, remarkable, resort, resort to, Rome, ruler
«Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.»
«Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Military,
War
| Keywords:
battles, generals, Germans, grip, peoples, prepare for, The Military
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