Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.” — Allan Wesler Copy Share Image
Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
It's a myth created by my 'well-wishers' that I used to have long drinking sessions every night with my cronies. — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley 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
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
