Frases de Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman foi uma escritora e historiadora autodidata estadunidense. Ficou conhecida pelo livro The Guns of August , uma história do prelúdio do primeiro mês da Primeira Guerra Mundial que lhe garantiu o Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral. Ela venceu o Pulitzer novamente por Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45, uma biografia do General Joseph Stilwell. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Janeiro 1912 – 6. Fevereiro 1989   •   Outros nomes باربارا تاکمن
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Barbara Tuchman: Frases em inglês

“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.

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

Barbara W. Tuchman livro 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 livro A Distant Mirror

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

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

Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: 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 livro A Distant Mirror

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

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

Barbara W. Tuchman livro 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 livro 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 livro A Distant Mirror

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

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

Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

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

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

Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

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