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C. V. Wedgwood

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

History , School , Moral

" 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. "

History , Giving , Two

" 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. "

Knowledge , May

" 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. "

History , Men , Ignorance

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