History Quote by Adrian Dunbar

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

— Jean Cocteau

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

— Penelope Lively

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

— Paul Ricoeur

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but…

— Modris Eksteins

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

— Norman Davies

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with…

— Steve Stern

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of…

— Robert Silverberg