History Quote by Modris Eksteins

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

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 is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

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

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing it will…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

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

— Jean Cocteau