Aspect Quote by Anonymous

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

— Anonymous

“I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth..”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there…

— Chris Priestley

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor…

— Isaac Asimov

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way…

— John Mason Brown

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

— David Mitchell

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

— John Jackson Miller

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance,…

— Hannah Arendt

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to…

— Laura Riding

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

— Salman Rushdie

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is…

— Victor Hugo