Truth Quote by Amin Maalouf Download Open image ““is there a difference between being the midwife of truth, or the midwife of legends?”” — Amin Maalouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth
“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.” — John Pirillo Copy Share Image
“At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells." "What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?" "Stories are never 'true'," Mother… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . .legends, which in the etymological sense are what one should pass on, are only the symbols of a tradional truth transported from… — Jean Markale Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life” — أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny Copy Share Image
“The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.” — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word, and I… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
