All C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
- An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything. Educated
- Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. Despair
- History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture… Beginning
- History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff… Action
- 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… Company
- We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient… Ancient
- It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. Belittle
- Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we… Asunder
- General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril. Amateurish
- For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness… Any
- The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he… Bondage
- Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history. Errors
- Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. Creative