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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
