Completeness Quote by Barbara Tuchman Download Open image “Completeness is rare in history.” — Barbara Tuchman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Completeness History
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The creation of something complete and whole, be it good or bad – and if it’s never entirely good, it’s very often not all… — Fernando Pessoa 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
“Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.” — Lashauna D. Hinton Copy Share Image
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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