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C V Wedgwood Quotes

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written Picture Quote #1

It should be the historian’s business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man’s spirit Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals Picture Quote #1

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 in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals Picture Quote #1

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 what it was to know the beginning only Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 cannot put them asunder Picture Quote #1

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It should be the historian’s business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man’s spirit Picture Quote #1

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 by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern Picture Quote #1

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair Picture Quote #1

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction Picture Quote #1

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything Picture Quote #1

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history Picture Quote #1

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The independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit Picture Quote #1

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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written (C V Wedgwood Quotes) It should be the historian’s business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man’s spirit. (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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. (C V Wedgwood Quotes) Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 (C V Wedgwood Quotes) Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals (C V Wedgwood Quotes) A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 what it was to know the beginning only (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 cannot put them asunder (C V Wedgwood Quotes) It should be the historian’s business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man’s spirit (C V Wedgwood Quotes) 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 by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern (C V Wedgwood Quotes) Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair (C V Wedgwood Quotes) Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction (C V Wedgwood Quotes) An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything (C V Wedgwood Quotes) Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history (C V Wedgwood Quotes) The independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit (C V Wedgwood Quotes)