Believe Quote by Francis Bacon

“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a…

— Will Durant

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity…

— Frederick The Great

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

— Voltaire

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little…

— George Ade

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is fables agreed upon.

— Voltaire

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the…

— Alex Abreu

“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of…

— David Friedrich Strauss

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is…

— Zadie Smith

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

— Ivan Panin