For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. — David Pogue Copy Share Image
I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me. — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed.… — Gerald McKnight Copy Share Image
“myths and mistruths get thrown around so often they eventually feel familiar and start to sound like the truth.” — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
“But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was… — Celsus Copy Share Image
“Another point of interest about the Tiahuanaco [in Bolivia] monoliths is that their garments from the waist down are patterned in the… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
“They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.” — John Fante Copy Share Image
“It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.” — Robert Roper Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image