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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
— Luigi Pirandello
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
— Elizabeth Coleman
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
— Raymond Williams
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ideas shape the course of history.
— John Maynard Keynes
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
— Mike Mills
The history of ideas is like a drama in many acts.
— Jostein Gaarder
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
History marches to the drum of a clear idea.
— W. H. Auden
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
— Giles Foden
British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.
— Tom Turner
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
— Alister E. McGrath
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
— Keith Richards
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
— John Maynard Keynes
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
— Andrew Ross
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
— Rivka Galchen
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
— Alice Miller
What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
— Richard Rorty
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
— Naguib Mahfouz
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
— M.H. Abrams
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
— Pyotr Chaadayev
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
— Scott Belsky
This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science:
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
— George Orwell
History is a record of exploded ideas.
— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
— Norman Cousins
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
— Emile M. Cioran
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
— V.S. Naipaul
This is the worst idea in the history of ideas, yet I can't stop myself from nodding.
— Denise Grover Swank
To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an ideaand history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
— Jonathan Coe
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
— Henry James
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
— Anne Fortier
