History Quote by Nancy Isenberg Download Open image ““Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”” — Nancy Isenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“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 Copy Share Image
“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going.… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Slaves.” As one of his loudest critics exclaimed in 1776, “Such was the language of the humane Mr. Locke!” Nor was this surprising. For… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“Many people----women especially----remain trapped in the poverty into which they were born. The successful person from this background is the exception. The American dream… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while others can… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.40” — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“Poor whites are still taught to hate—but not to hate those who are keeping them in line. Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped,… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“When Winthrop defended the colony, he wanted to create a religious community that would be saved from the “corrupted” bastions of learning, Oxford and… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
