Myth Quotes · Page 12

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another

— Oliver DeMille

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

“Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

— Sean Lennon

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

— Dustin Hoffman

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

— Anonymous

“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”

— Tom Robbins

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

— Dan Mangan

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes…

— Paulo Freire

I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I…

— Bill Maher

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end…

— E. L. Doctorow

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the…

— Suzy Kassem

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can…

— Sarah Zettel

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in…

— Rick Dees

Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces…

— Francois Jacob

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The…

— Edward Abbey

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

— Albert Camus

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their…

— Michael Benanav

“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much…

— Michael Meade

“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,…

— Neel Burton

“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a…

— Simona Panova

“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what…

— Joseph Campbell

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

— Gavid Hood

“Myth: Being a vampire changes your life. Truth: Well, we'll just have to see, won't we?”

— Kimberly Pauley

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

— Naomi Wolf

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

— Kent McCord

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

— Rollo May

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

— C. S. Lewis

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

— Elizabeth Janeway

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

— John Bacon

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

— Eddie Huang

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

— Dorothy Norman

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

— Peter Higgs

“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.”

— J.G. McKenney

“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.”

— Martin Shaw

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and…

— Suzanne Somers

“A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.”

— Mamur Mustapha

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

— Robert Briffault