For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
