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title: "Popular Myth Quotations"
description: "Browse 2,141 Myth quotes by 1,489 authors. Discover the best Myth sayings and thoughts."
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> [Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vine-deloria-jr/like-almost-everyone-else-in-america-i-grew-up-believing-the-myth-of/)

[Vine Deloria Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vine-deloria-jr/)

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> [“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-professional-religious-leaders-cannot-instruct-us-in-mythological/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haley-barbour/we-know-that-acid-rain-has-had-no-significant-environmental-effect-on/)

[Haley Barbour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haley-barbour/)

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> [The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-images-of-myth-are-reflections-of-spiritual-and-depth/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-m-soehnlein/but-revision-is-a-creative-act-not-merely-an-analytical-imposition-of/)

[K. M. Soehnlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-m-soehnlein/)

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> [“Through action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth. By…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-hope/through-action-a-man-becomes-a-hero-through-death-a-hero-becomes-a/)

[Grant Hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-hope/)

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> [Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-d-vinge/each-time-storytellers-clothed-the-naked-body-of-the-myth-in-their/)

[Joan D. Vinge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-d-vinge/)

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> [“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-sheehan/the-5-year-old-sees-that-paradise-correctly-not-in-technology-but-in/)

[George Sheehan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-sheehan/)

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> [What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/what-i-can-say-is-that-it-was-clear-to-many-of-us-that-an-indigenous/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-bunge/one-can-discern-a-few-very-general-myths-that-facilitate-the-birth-of/)

[Mario Bunge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-bunge/)

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> [“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowles/it-was-not-enough-that-food-aplenty-was-within-man-s-grasp-he-wanted/)

[David Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bowles/)

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> [There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/there-is-a-city-myth-that-country-life-was-isolated-and-lonely-the/)

[Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/)

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> [I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-dennett/i-am-confident-that-those-who-believe-in-belief-are-wrong-that-is-we/)

[Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-dennett/)

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> [A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelangelo-signorile/a-middle-ground-might-be-to-fight-for-same-sex-marriage-and-its/)

[Michelangelo Signorile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelangelo-signorile/)

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> [The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tucker-max/the-idea-that-guys-should-walk-into-a-bar-and-confidently-initiate/)

[Tucker Max](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tucker-max/)

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> [Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-barker/isn-t-atheism-just-another-religion-no-it-isn-t-atheism-has-no-creeds/)

[Dan Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-barker/)

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> [When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-ree/when-you-have-a-world-champion-in-your-smartphone-the-myth-of-the/)

[Hans Ree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-ree/)

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> [There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-mac-donald/there-s-an-ideology-that-s-taken-hold-of-universities-that-has-taken/)

[Heather Mac Donald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-mac-donald/)

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> [Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-zipes/over-the-centuries-we-have-transformed-the-ancient-myths-and-folk/)

[Jack Zipes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-zipes/)

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> [Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/myth-legend-and-ritual-function-to-maintain-a-status-quo-that-makes/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

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> [“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-images-of-myth-must-be-the-daemonic-guardians-omnipresent-and/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-ellroy/as-critical-acclaim-and-response-has-built-up-every-interview-i-give/)

[James Ellroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-ellroy/)

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> [Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/let-us-see-how-high-we-can-fly-before-the-sun-melts-the-wax-in-our-2/)

[E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/)

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> [I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beau-willimon/i-don-t-desire-happiness-i-think-it-s-a-myth-and-i-don-t-think-it-s/)

[Beau Willimon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beau-willimon/)

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> [I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-was-totally-taken-in-and-totally-taken-by-that-myth-starting-in/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

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> [It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-mullan/it-takes-a-very-strong-brain-to-resist-the-absolutes-the-myths-that/)

[Peter Mullan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-mullan/)

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> [“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/modris-eksteins/myth-took-the-place-of-objectively-conceived-history-myth-michel/)

[Modris Eksteins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/modris-eksteins/)

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> [It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-pilger/it-is-not-enough-for-journalists-to-see-themselves-as-mere-messengers/)

[John Pilger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-pilger/)

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> [“The world has fully lost touch with the old ways. Magic has always stayed so well hidden and out of sight that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kassandra-cross/the-world-has-fully-lost-touch-with-the-old-ways-magic-has-always/)

[Kassandra Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kassandra-cross/)

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> [“Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-brennan-and-mike-stone/requiems-for-the-departed-contains-seventeen-short-stories-inspired/)

[Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-brennan-and-mike-stone/)

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> [If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-chapman/if-you-grew-up-in-a-dysfunctional-family-then-there-is-really-no-hope/)

[Gary Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-chapman/)

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> [For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-ramirez/for-me-what-was-very-important-was-to-try-to-capture-the-essence-that/)

[Edgar Ramirez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-ramirez/)

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> [What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luke-davies/what-passes-relentlessly-through-the-years-is-blood-and-time-all-the/)

[Luke Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luke-davies/)

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> [There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kode9/there-is-an-uninformed-myth-circulating-just-now-that-makes-dubstep/)

[Kode9](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kode9/)

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> [To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannes-alfven/to-try-to-write-a-grand-cosmical-drama-leads-necessarily-to-myth-to/)

[Hannes Alfven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannes-alfven/)

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> [People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/people-do-not-like-to-have-their-favorite-myths-of-idols-challenged/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

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> [Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mason-brown/even-when-the-facts-are-available-most-people-seem-to-prefer-the/)

[John Mason Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mason-brown/)

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> [Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-lerner/corporations-care-very-much-about-maintaining-the-myth-that/)

[Michael Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-lerner/)

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> [The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-realms-of-the-gods-and-demons-heaven-purgatory-hell-are-of-the/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brother-ali/the-key-is-always-the-actual-art-itself-the-actual-music-there-are/)

[Brother Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brother-ali/)

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                        "text": "What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.",
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                        "text": "One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.",
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                        "text": "“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame alive”",
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                        "text": "There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.",
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                        "text": "A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing \"same-sex marriage\"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.",
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                        "text": "Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.",
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