Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.” — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;… — Edith Hamilton Mythology Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
“Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It is one thing for modern educated people to feel they must believe these old stories as factual when science proves otherwise.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Her sister Lea had an ancient book of myths and legends, and there was all kinds of info in there - of… — Bethany Lovell Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Myths, it transpired, are stronger than anyone could have imagined.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
