C.V. Wedgwood Quotes

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

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

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

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

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

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

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

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 wage levels.

Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

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

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

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.

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

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything