Books Quote by Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“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

“Maganda ang kastila. It is beautiful, lalo pa kung nagmumura.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“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

“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

“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

“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History is re-creation while literature is creation.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“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

“A good historian always provides for an exit in case of fire. "Probably," "allegedly," "it is possible...”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“I do not believe in this command leadership. Dangerous doctrine 'yan ha. Because you cannot know everything your men do.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“In historical methodology, it says that the more private a communication is, the more authoritative it is.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“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