Myth Quotes · Page 14

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

— Anonymous

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

“Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?”

— C.J. Cherryh

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

— Carl Sagan

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

— Robert Lipsyte

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight!…

— Burn Gorman

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear…

— John Steinbeck

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

— Diane Wakoski

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something…

— William Matthews

“Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to…

— N.K. Jemisin

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of…

— Laurence Overmire

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In…

— Kumi Naidoo

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is…

— Brian Froud

“The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy. Forms and conceptions that the…

— Joseph Campbell

How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays…

— Claudia Gray

“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the…

— E. M. Forster

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and…

— Nina Berberova

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and…

— David Biespiel

That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be…

— Lisa Anderson

It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of…

— Ursula Goodenough

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

— James A. Baldwin

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

— Nancy Pearcey

“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.”

— Matthew Mather

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

— Mike Nichols

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

— John C. Maxwell

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

— Robert D. Putnam

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

— Pauline Marois

I don't believe two actresses can be best friends. It's an absolute myth.

— Sameera Reddy

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

— Michael Tsarion

I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth.

— Ana Navarro

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

— Wole Soyinka

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

— Bryan Sykes

“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...”

— John Geddes