Myth Quotes · Page 25

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

— Rick Santelli

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

— Phyllis McGinley

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

— Vivek Wadhwa

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for…

— Tom Wolfe

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

— Cyril Connolly

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

— Michel Tournier

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

— Alan Moore

“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.”

— Joseph Campbell

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something…

— William Matthews

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

— Diane Wakoski

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a…

— Naomi Wolf

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In…

— Kumi Naidoo

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is…

— Brian Froud

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of…

— Laurence Overmire

“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no…

— Kailin Gow

“The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some…

— Nora Roberts

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe…

— Brad Holland

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic…

— Ben Shapiro

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…

— Bertrand Russell

Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a…

— Camille Paglia

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by…

— Virgil

Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that,…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

“The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene,…

— Karl Jaspers

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

— Karen Russell

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

— Steve Fowler

“We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life”

— Sun Ra

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

— W. Edwards Deming

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson

“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

— Margaret Atwood

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

— Allen Tate

“The tempest hadn’t descended from the clouds—it had climbed from the depths.”

— Deni Ar Dente

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

— Dominic Monaghan

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

— Bob Kane

“There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.”

— Alison G. Bailey

“The lie was that we believed that we believed all people were created equal! What made us think we were this great…

— Richard Rohr

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation…

— Paulo Coelho

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea…

— Bill Keller

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they…

— Herbert Schiller