Quotes found in “Experiential Storytelling” book.

Imitation is suicide.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers-

Facts cannot speak for themselves. Facts are dependent upon context. Context is everything.
-Annette Simmons-

Stories are “more true” than facts because stories are multi-dimensional. Truth with a capital “T” has many layers. Truths like justice or integrity are too complex to be expressed in a law, a statistic, or a fact. Facts need the context of when, and where to become Truths.
-Annette Simmons-

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
-Arnold Bennett, British novelist

This one is my favorite.
Truth, naked and cold, had been turned away from every door in the village. Her nakedness frightened the people. When Parable found her, she was huddled in a corner, shivering and hungry. Taking pity on her, Parable gathered her up and took her home. There, she dressed Truth in story, warmed her and sent her out again. Clothed in story, Truth knocked again at the villagers’ doors and was readily welcomed into the people’s houses. They invited her to eat at their table and warm herself by the fire.
-Jewish teaching story-