History Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

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

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them…

— Gerald Hausman

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

— Daikichi Irokawa

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of…

— Suzy Kassem

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman