We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source… — 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… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his… — 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
