History Quote by Joseph Campbell

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

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

— Anonymous

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

— Jean Cocteau

“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

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

“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but…

— Modris Eksteins

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

— Penelope Lively

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

— Roy Basler

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

— Norman Davies

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

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