Myth Quotes · Page 19

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth…

— Karl Abraham

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

— Michelle Alexander

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

— Billy Graham

“Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting.”

— Toba Beta

“Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.”

— Alessandra Torre

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

— Debora Spar

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...

— Nikola Tesla

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

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

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us…

— Julie Taymor

Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so…

— Charles Fort

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like…

— Diana Wynne Jones

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported…

— Molly Ivins

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work…

— Sara Sheridan

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to…

— William R. Ferris

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to…

— Kevin Mitnick

The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes…

— David Limbaugh

For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for…

— Peggy McIntosh

How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to…

— Uri Avnery

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to…

— Northrop Frye

“One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal.…

— Margaret Mark

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for…

— Gerry Spence

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that…

— Bill Gates

There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered…

— Noam Chomsky

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

— Hershel Shanks

“Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.”

— Allan Wesler

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

People think that if you are young, you don't know what is best for you. That's a myth.

— Declan McKenna

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

— Aristotle

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.”

— John Pirillo

“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.”

— Priscilla Vogelbacher

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

— Douglas Rushkoff

There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!

— Nikita Dutta

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

— Denis MacShane

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

— Michael Shermer