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Human history in essence is the history of ideas. — H.G.Wells

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

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past. — Tom Turner

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. — Giles Foden

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. — Marc Bloch

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. — Rosa Parks

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

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader. — John Gray

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

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas. — Leo Strauss

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history — Amy Tan

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. — H.G.Wells

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. — Stacy Schiff

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

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas. — N. T. Wright

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

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution — John Gray

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 idea
and 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

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann