If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the mater — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the mater — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the mater — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the mater — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the mater — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
Download Customize

If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.

— Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
history writers writing

More “History” Quotes

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, any — Howard Zinn
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. — Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history. — Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. — Winston S. Churchill
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. — Stephen Colbert
It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that — Philip Pullman
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargem — David McCullough
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen aga — George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir, My Life
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. T — Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat