Falsehoods Quote by Bryant McGill

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

“Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us.…

— Heinrich von Kleist

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what is stated…

— Meera Syal

“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what does all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations.”

— ninotaziz

“We live in this bubble of ignorance. Most people know nothing about history, or the historical context of the traditions they still follow today.…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and…

— Richard Holloway

“As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.”

— Lewis N. Roe

“There are people who merely see what is. And there are people who look beyond what is. There are those who swim in the…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our…

— Dan Brown