Storytelling Quote by Cacilda Jethá

“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that we must…

— David C. Lindberg

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and…

— Robert Wright

“The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the…

— Mary Roach

“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often are events…

— Criss Jami

“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.”

— Richard B. Spence

“Do we honor the past by projecting ourselves forward into the future? By carrying on genes and traits and family stories?”

— Kimberley Freeman

“The study of history can be sobering and shocking, and morally troubling. One does not have to believe in original sin to do it…

— Anonymous

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

— Judith Geary

“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one…

— Michelle Richmond

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout