Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths. — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I don't believe two actresses can be best friends. It's an absolute myth. — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A third myth is that men think that women like guys who are dangerous. As a result, guys will often smoke cigarettes,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth… A mother's love isn't cliché,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth. — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection. — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether... — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
