Quotes About Myth

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

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

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

History is merely gossip

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

All history is a lie!

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

History is filled with fictional people.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods