Actual Quote by Elizabeth Coleman

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

— Etienne Gilson

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution…

— Edward R. Murrow

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

— Karl Marx

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they…

— James Davison Hunter

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn