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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
Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
— Alice Walker
The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.
— Herbert Butterfield
Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
To understand the truth of history, you must lend one ear to the conqueror, yet two to the vanquished.
— Kyle West
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
— Anton Walbrook
History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.
— Mitch Rowland
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
— Carlos Fuentes
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
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
— Michel Foucault
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
— Charles Guggenheim
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
— Ashwin Sanghi
...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.
— Procopius Of Caesarea
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
— Polybius
The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.
— Russell Banks
History is not history unless it is the truth.
— Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control.
— Chris Galford
Memory is the most potent truth.Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies. — Carlos Eire
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
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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
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
— Katharine Anthony
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
Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.
— Mike Barnicle
Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today
— Mike Watt
Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.
— Dan Simmons
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
Tell the Truth. Make it Special.Life's a Beach. And then you Drown.
Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. — Justin Allison
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?
— Michael Duncan
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
— Andrew Dickson White
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
— Charles De Lint
As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
— David S. Landes
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
— Anatole France
I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.
— George Mead
The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.
— Brandy Nacole
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
Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.
— Jorge Luis Borges
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
— Sunday Adelaja
For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.
— Mary E. Pearson
History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself.
— Sebastien De Castell
The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.
— George R R Martin
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
— Joss Whedon
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
— Kim Il-sung
Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.
— Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Most non-Christian philosophies consider history to be the enemy of truth. Feminism shares this suspicion of history.
— Monica Migliorino Miller
I'm interested in the truth, but the stories tell us so much about the people throughout history as well.
— Skye Warren
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
— Robert Breault
Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.
— Addison Gayle Jr.
Is truth an absolute?
— Austin Hernon
I am ... only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace.- Danny Rollings — James Fox
Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental ...
— D. A. Fisher
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
— Roy Basler
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Excellence is not a history, but a habit.
— Debasish Mridha
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
— Tomichan Matheikal
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
Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward
— Sunday Adelaja
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
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
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
— Henry Louis Gates
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
The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.
— Megan Smolenyak
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.
— Salman Rushdie
Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements.
— Lee Patterson
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
— Henry James
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions ...
— Llewellyn Rockwell
History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
— Michelle Sagara West
Rumors are the children of truth.
— Danny M. Cohen
Making a name for yourself comes from working hard
— Sunday Adelaja
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
Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
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
