The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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