Quote by Barbara Tuchman
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in

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

Other quotes by Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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History
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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

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History
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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History

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling Stop! – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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History

The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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History

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. – C. Wright Mills

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History

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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead. – Maurice Sendak

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Future

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Freedom

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. – Herbert Read

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Nature