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 Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins 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 dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Our definition of ‘myth’ in common parlance: a widely believed, but false story. That’s the definition Anant so helpfully illustrated. But that’s… — Jordanna Max Brodsky Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
“Greater skill and value is found in creating a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form.… — VD Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason… — William Powell Copy Share Image
...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued,… — Bruce Berger Copy Share Image
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
