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

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself. — Paul Mooney

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact? — Kiera Cass

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. — Auguste Rodin

For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself! — Joseph Conrad

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history. — Oliver Jeffers

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore De Balzac

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave. — Russell Banks

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. — George Lynch

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts. — Daikichi Irokawa

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. — Rebecca Wells

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin

You can never change the truths of history. You can only learn from them and use them to try and build a better world. — Timothy Pina

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. — Gilbert Murray

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. — Plutarch

In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor ... — Philip Pullman

there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth. — Robert Graves

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told. — Cinda Williams Chima

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances — Robert E.Lee

Memory is the most potent truth.
Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies. — Carlos Eire

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history. — Pope John Paul II

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. — Hillary Clinton

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance — Sunday Adelaja

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history. — Brandy Nacole

I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history. — George Mead

Do as you would be done by — Jennifer Dance

You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems — Sunday Adelaja

Tell the Truth. Make it Special.

Life's a Beach. And then you Drown.

Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. — Justin Allison

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too. — Francine Pascal

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. — Lord Acton

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it. — T.A. Uner

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. — E. O. Wilson

Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward — Sunday Adelaja

Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat history. — L.M. Fields

In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. — Madame De Stael

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

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. — Iris Murdoch

The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise. — George R R Martin

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today. — Jaroslav Hasek

The motive force of history is truth and not lies. — Leon Trotsky

Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books. — Catherynne M Valente

Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh. — Tara Conklin

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be. — Tadeusz Pankiewicz

For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever. — Mary E. Pearson

History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail. — Charles Augustus Briggs

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. — Kim Il-sung

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time. — George MacDonald Fraser

I am ... only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace.
- Danny Rollings — James Fox

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe — Andy Andrews

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived. — Billy The Kid

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. — Terry Pratchett

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau

Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien Morel — Louisa Burton

Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again. — Laurence Overmire

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with. — Simon R. Green

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. — Auliq Ice

Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements. — Lee Patterson