The power of storytelling is universal
We love a good quote at Settle Stories. Below are our favourite’s, followed by an extensive list for you to choose from for yourselves.
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Storytelling Quotes:
Sita Brand, Artistic Director/CEO:
“Those who tell stories rule society” – Plato
Charles Tyrer, Executive Director:
“‘Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all’ – Philip Pullman
More quotes that we love here at Settle Stories:
“Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.” – Karen Armstrong
“After ‘THE END’ a new story is eager to be heard.” – Bern Veenhof
“Some day you’ll be old enough to start reading fairytales again.” – C.S. Lewis
“Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.” – Robert Redford
“Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.” – Tim O’Brien
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”- K. Chesterton
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” – Hannah Arendt
“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.” – Harold Goddard
“Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.”- Jim Trelease
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
“The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.” – Joseph Campbell
“As we share stories, we exalt in the joy of completed journeys, solved problems and happy endings.” – Joe Healy
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” – Muriel Rukeyser
“All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. Religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.” – Harvey Cox
“The tales is often wiser than the teller.” – Susan Fletcher
‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever.” – Philip Pullman
“Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.” – Baal Shem Tov
“Stories tell us of what we already knew and forgot, and remind us of what we haven’t yet imagined.” – Anne L. Watson
“Austrailian Aborigines say that the big stories – the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the menaning of your life – are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.” – Robert Moss
“We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.” – Aaron Shepard
“Wherever men have lived there is a story to be told.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.” – George Lucas
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” – Margaret Atwood
“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.” – Ben Okri
“Those who rule societies, rule society.” – Plato
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