History Quote by Anonymous Download Open image “History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.” — Anonymous ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Myth Storytelling Stuff
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale 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
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
