“Myth: Vampires can read minds. Truth: Geez, I hope not. But it would explain some things about my mom. ” — Kimberly Pauley Copy Share Image
As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom. — David Farr Copy Share Image
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become. — Christine Downing Copy Share Image
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god,… — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the… — David Rosenfelt Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need… — Isadore Sharp Copy Share Image
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth. In what sense do all humans equal one another?” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans? — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool… — Drew Karpyshyn Copy Share Image