Myths Quotes

What if all the myths were true...

— Liu Kang

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

— Kelly Lynch

“a space of time is a great breeder of myths.”

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Creation myths need a devil”

— Elliot Shrage

I am attracted to myths.

— Tina Turner

“Myths are reality, born out of space.”

— VD

All systems require myths for their longevity.

— Nikki Giovanni

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

— Laini Taylor

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

— David Christian

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

— Saul Friedlander

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

There are many myths surrounding celebrity children.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

— Phil Cousineau

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

— Freeman Dyson

Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier

— Anonymous

“Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead…

— Henry Jenkins

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.…

— Sam Keen

“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always…

— Dr. Amit Abraham

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

— Peggy Noonan

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason…

— William Powell

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the…

— Javier Cazañ

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian…

— Luther Burbank

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's…

— Stanley Kubrick

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for…

— James D. Watson

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness…

— Ann Druyan

“There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the…

— George Dyson

The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. 'Captain America,' 'Iron Man,' 'Hulk' - these are the biggest…

— David Harbour

“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can…

— Philip Freeman

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because…

— Karl Marx

“The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by…

— Brian Baker

“As the generations pass they grow worse. A time will come when they have grown so wicked that they will worship power;…

— Greek myth on the Iron Age

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…

— Michael Shermer

“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those…

— Patrick White

“Wolves attack the hindquarters of prey first, biting into the animal's meaty rump or ham. They stay away from the tendons near…

— Jon T. Coleman

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us…

— Alan Lee

“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is…

— Humphrey Carpenter