Myth Quotes
992 quotes by 742 authors
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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
— Margaret Atwood
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
— Ansel Adams
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have…
— Warren G. Bennis
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of…
— Annie Besant
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of…
— Annie Besant
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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from…
— Lionel Blue
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be…
— Jo Brand
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
— William J. Brennan
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You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
— Jeff Bridges
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Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
— Jeff Bridges
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
— David Byrne
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
— Joseph Campbell
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
— Albert Camus
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
— Jackie Chan
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
— Tori Amos
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,…
— Jean Cocteau
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are…
— Thomas Aquinas
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