Action Quote by C. V. Wedgwood

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

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

— C. V. Wedgwood

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

— C. V. Wedgwood

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

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

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral…

— C. V. Wedgwood