The Idea Of History Quotes
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It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.
— Neal Shusterman
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
— Raymond Williams
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
— Douglas Coupland
The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
— Tom Stoppard
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
History marches to the drum of a clear idea.
— W. H. Auden
Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.
— David Levithan
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
One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
— Matthew Pearl
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
— Catherine Opie
I think it would be an excellent idea.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history.
— Hugh Gaitskell
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
— Clint Eastwood
If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.
— Ralph Bunche
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
— Nathaniel Branden
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
— Scott Belsky
The doctrine of Original Sin is the most democratizing idea in all of human history.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
— Pankaj Mishra
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
This is the worst idea in the history of ideas, yet I can't stop myself from nodding.
— Denise Grover Swank
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
— Scott Westerfeld
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
It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
— George W. S. Trow
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
If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do. — Maeve Binchy
History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
— George Orwell
