"The search for the truth for truth's sake……" — B. H. Liddell Hart

"The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian."

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65 Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart

B. H. Liddell Hart has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security…
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge…
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather…
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological…
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden…
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present…
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and…
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best…
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that,…

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. — Ambrose Bierce
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old… — Buffalo Bill
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the… — Dan Brown
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of… — Michael N. Castle
I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community… — John Henrik Clarke
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does… — Chuck Close
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats… — Stephen Ambrose
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native… — U Thant
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher… — H.G. Wells

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