People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
“- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The bedroom tax turfed people, many of them disabled, out of their homes, while the government disseminated myths about people living it… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent,… — Tim O'Shea Copy Share Image
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them.… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world - and the phrase 'greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying 'big… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The myths of Hylas, Adonis, Lityerses, and Linus describes the annual mourning for the sacred king of his boy-surrogate, sacrificed to placate… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“There’s almost no evidence in literature to suggest that resistance training alters energy expenditure outside of the exercise session, significant enough to… — Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.” — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women. — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths. — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
