Top 33 Wedgwood Quotes
#1. My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.
Joan Rivers
#2. People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
Margaret Thatcher
#4. Maybe I just find long-term relationships to be interesting because I've never been in one or seen one that works well without getting fucked up in the end. Sometimes it seems like people are incapable of normal relationships anymore
Santino Hassell
#5. Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
C.V. Wedgwood
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything
C.V. Wedgwood
#10. Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
C.V. Wedgwood
#11. The independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.
C.V. Wedgwood
#12. To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes
Bruce H. Lipton
#13. The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
C.V. Wedgwood
#14. A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
C.V. Wedgwood
#15. Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
C.V. Wedgwood
#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
#18. Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
C.V. Wedgwood
#19. 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
#20. Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.
Josiah Wedgwood
#21. 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
#22. Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
C.V. Wedgwood
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
C.V. Wedgwood
#28. International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.
C.V. Wedgwood
#29. 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.
C.V. Wedgwood
#30. 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
#31. The more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.
Therese Of Lisieux
#32. 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
#33. Spun sugar clouds and extraterrestrial crystal vintage T-birds flying through space, morning-glory girls swinging from star-hung vines in cosmic gardens.
Francesca Lia Block
