Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. — Roy Wilkins
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who… — Charles Fort
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be… — Walt Disney
I drag my myth around with me. — Orson Welles
By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped… — Frederick Lenz
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by. — William Shatner
The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be… — Nancy Etcoff
When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth. — Steven Heller
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There… — George Galloway
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to… — Tom Vanderbilt
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in… — Hooman Majd
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans… — Hermann Hesse
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused. — Charles de Lint
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. — David Pogue
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. — C.S. Lewis
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
When gossip grows old it becomes myth. — Bill Vaughan
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real. — Bill Vaughan
Conscience is better served by a myth. — John Kenneth Galbraith
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner

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