American Individualism 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