Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe… — David Rosenfelt
Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness. — Phil Zuckerman
Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every… — Diana Wynne Jones
Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners… — Greg Brown
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. — Ross Macdonald
The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world. — Robert Anton Wilson
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported… — Mark Gatiss
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think… — David Lindsay-Abaire
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I… — Jeffrey Hunter
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example,… — Jez Butterworth
The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values,… — Tom Flynn
The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is the myth, he… — The Miz
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave… — Andrew Sullivan
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there… — Jonathan Haidt
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are… — Bell Hooks
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable… — William Matthews
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes… — Fred Brooks
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is… — Honore de Balzac
American public policy is run on a myth. — Richard Lamm
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. — Eldridge Cleaver
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. — Thomas Szasz
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're… — J. G. Ballard
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne

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