“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what to include and what not to include in his work, is proof that history is never objective.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what to include… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“Maganda ang kastila. It is beautiful, lalo pa kung nagmumura.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“Who is this historian who can say that he's telling the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth. Nobody, because you're human.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“The attitude of a student in history should be do not accept anything until proven otherwise. Doubt everything including your parentage! Including your parentage!” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“I said that great men had a sense of history. But when you say you have a great sense of history it does not… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“Politeness is good only in social relations, because to be polite in literary or academic [matters] would be to be dishonest. Ipinasa mo out… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“A good historian always provides for an exit in case of fire. "Probably," "allegedly," "it is possible...” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in this command leadership. Dangerous doctrine 'yan ha. Because you cannot know everything your men do.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“In historical methodology, it says that the more private a communication is, the more authoritative it is.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“It's stupidity to continue using a method which is proven to be useless [and] fruitless. It's a waste of manpower.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“That is why I'm not in favor of the UP today which is too big, because the standard goes down. The reason is that… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“You see, this is one big defect of many people... They see nothing good in people they don't like. And this is dangerous.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image