Myth Quotes · Page 13

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

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career

— Teri Garr

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

— Richard Dawkins

Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.

— Chris Claremont

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live…

— Bharati Mukherjee

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce…

— Adelle Davis

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is…

— Joseph Campbell

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up…

— Richard Dawkins

“Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage,…

— Randy S. Woodley

Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she…

— Howard Jacobson

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word…

— Adam Kirsch

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure…

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies…

— Martin Gardner

“One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”–is…

— Lemony Snicket

What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the…

— Richard Brodie

“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating…

— Donna Tartt

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of…

— Sam Shepard

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

— Robert Anton Wilson

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

— Edward Zwick

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

— Panos Cosmatos

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

— James Lane Allen

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

— John Powell

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

— John Fowles

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

— Christopher Moore

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

— James Dyson

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

— Konrad Lorenz