Education Quote by Salman Rushdie

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that…

— Taylor Swift

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what…

— Helen Oyeyemi

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales,…

— Angela Carter

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

— Jostein Gaarder

What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk…

— Alice Hoffman

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

— Richard Dawkins

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

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We…

— Jan Siegel