Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Storytelling is the important thing.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Folktales are real.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

History: Gossip well told.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

I come from a family of storytellers.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.