Myth Quotes · Page 17

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

— Ashley Montagu

It's a myth created by my 'well-wishers' that I used to have long drinking sessions every night with my cronies.

— Shatrughan Sinha

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

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

— Robert D. Putnam

“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...”

— John Geddes

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

— Bryan Sykes

I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may…

— Lee Radziwill

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.…

— Rodney Stark

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our…

— David Levithan

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?'…

— Zooey Deschanel

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was…

— Joan D. Vinge

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and…

— Rollo May

One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false…

— George Soros

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we…

— Nancy Etcoff

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.…

— Michael Sheen

Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the…

— John Seabrook

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge…

— Arthur Demarest

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics…

— Joseph Campbell

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,…

— Joseph Campbell

The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea…

— B. W. Powe

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story…

— Tom Tykwer

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,…

— Eugene Ionesco

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

— Wole Soyinka

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

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

— Michael Tsarion

I don't believe two actresses can be best friends. It's an absolute myth.

— Sameera Reddy

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

— Nancy Pearcey

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

— James A. Baldwin

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

— Robert Lipsyte

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

— Carl Sagan

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

— Robert Anton Wilson

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

— John C. Maxwell

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

— Mike Nichols

“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.”

— Matthew Mather

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to…

— William Monahan

“it's a myth, you know; he doesn't have to draw blood for him to leave a scar.”

— Angeli Cabal

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges