Myth Quotes · Page 20

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

— David Dellinger

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

— Joseph Campbell

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.

— Shel Silverstein

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

— Jo Nesbo

“Truth or myth, it is only for me to know. Come with me into the rich texture of Bizco's kingdom.”

— Maria Mitchell

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy…

— Terri Windling

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to…

— Thom Yorke

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the…

— Andrea Dworkin

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of…

— Edward Abbey

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of…

— Richard Le Gallienne

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,…

— Rigoberta Menchu

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of…

— Daniel Goleman

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a…

— Anonymous

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative…

— Sam Keen

The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It…

— William Galston

How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell…

— Lillian B. Rubin

If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which…

— Suzanne Collins

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And…

— Karen Armstrong

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

It's a myth that you need thousands of pounds to start a business.

— Sara Davies

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

— Bel Kaufman

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

— Tom Hiddleston

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

— Starhawk

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

— Jacques Ellul

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

— Tori Amos

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

— David Christian

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

— Todd Gitlin

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

— Diane Guerrero

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.”

— Toba Beta

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger