Barbara W. Tuchman citations

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman est une historienne américaine. Elle doit sa notoriété à The Guns of August, l'histoire du prologue de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui obtint le prix Pulitzer de l'essai en 1963. Elle a aussi reçu le prix Pulitzer de l'essai pour Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945, une biographie du général Joseph Stilwell. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. janvier 1912 – 6. février 1989   •   Autres noms باربارا تاکمن
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Barbara W. Tuchman: Citations en anglais

“History is the unfolding of miscalculations.”

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, p. 132 (1970)

“Books are the carriers of civilization… They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

Variante: Books are... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre The Guns of August

Source: The Guns of August

“If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520
A Distant Mirror (1978)

“In the midst of events there is no perspective.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 454

“Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 469

“What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 291

“Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
A Distant Mirror (1978)

“When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Admiral Jean de Vienne, quoted on p. 559
A Distant Mirror (1978)

“Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 487

“Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 523

“To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.”

Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 459