Different Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

— Anonymous

The facts are always less than what really happened.

— Nadine Gordimer

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

— Bill Capodagli

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

— Elizabeth Strout

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

— Oliver Jeffers

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

— Thomas Carlyle

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

— Walter Darby Bannard

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

— Joseph Campbell

History depends on who is telling the story.

— James O'Shaughnessy

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood