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 More Quotes by C. V. Wedgwood More Quotes From C. V. Wedgwood 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 giving two history Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. C. V. Wedgwood despair disorder energy 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 greatness men people