Create Yours

Top 15 C. V. Wedgwood Quotes (2025 Update)

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.”

1. “An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

2. “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

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.”

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.”

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

6. “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

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.”

7. “My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “It should be the historian’s business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man’s spirit.”

8. “It should be the historian’s business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man’s spirit.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

9. “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

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “The individual – stupendous and beautiful paradox – is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.”

10. “The individual – stupendous and beautiful paradox – is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.”

11. “International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.”

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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 is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.”

13. “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 is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.”

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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 and precept can still be drawn.”

15. “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 and precept can still be drawn.”

— C. V. Wedgwood

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

16. “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

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

17. “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

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

18. “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

C. V. Wedgwood Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 15 C. V. Wedgwood Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.