Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth. — Peter Thiel
We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate. — Vivek Wadhwa
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a… — Gurbaksh Chahal
The natural-born investor is a myth. — Peter Lynch
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. — Bertrand Piccard
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of… — Joseph Campbell
If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in… — Ken Wilber
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who… — Simon Sebag-Montefiore
It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth — W. Edwards Deming
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor… — Paulo Freire
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created… — Paulo Freire
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of… — Paulo Freire
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the… — Rigoberta Menchu
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the… — Ivan Illich
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one… — Sergio Leone
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of… — Paul Ricoeur
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… — Philip Gourevitch
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around… — Hermann Hesse
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and… — James Ellroy
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never… — Freeman Dyson
It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side… — Hugh Hefner
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning… — Rollo May

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