Myths Quotes · Page 2

“Myths have a very long memory.”

— Bryan Sykes

We're separated by our myths.

— Hugh Hefner

“All myths have a basis in fact”

— Samaire Provost

“(what myths of any religion are rational?).”

— John H. Martin

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

— Mary Garden

“Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod.”

— Christina L. Farley

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

— Cynthia Nixon

If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.

— David Mitchell

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

— Diodorus Siculus

“Pixies is understood as the counterparts of faeries.”

— Kailin Gow

“Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.”

— Dave Champion

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

— Eric Chaisson

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

— Edith Hamilton

“You can’t move forward with your life until you make peace with your past.”

— Lisa Carlisle

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

— Christine Downing

“Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that…

— Chila Woychik

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of…

— John Singleton

“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”

— Rick Riordan

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

— Greil Marcus

I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors…

— Smriti Irani

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas

I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.

— Amish Tripathi

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a…

— Charles Hazlewood

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where…

— Casey Affleck

“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as…

— Helen Morales

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery…

— Tom Harper

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give…

— Anne Lamott

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through…

— Alex Ferguson

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention…

— Tim Minchin

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are…

— Erich Fromm

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to…

— Joseph Campbell

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Myths are supposed to teach us something, but what’s the life lesson 
in this sad tale of Orpheus? No good deed goes…

— Augustus Hill

LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“We not only do not believe that man is punished for his 'sins,' but emphatically state that there is no such thing…

— Joseph Lewis

“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just…

— Hector Avalos

“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,…

— Michael Shermer