I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
We have to educate our communities about the immigration system and dispel the myths that have been fed to us. Immigration isn't… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.” — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
We overhype everything. We create monumental myths. There are people who still believe that Brandi Chastain and the U.S. women's World Cup… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's kind of strange...All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone… — Maurissa Guibord Copy Share Image
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
“Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes -… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former… — Krista Allen Copy Share Image
Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
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