Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's… — Billy Bob Thornton
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. — David S. Goyer
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss… — Erich Fromm
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always… — Robert Fulghum
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age… — Mahatma Gandhi
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of… — Henry Louis Gates
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices… — Henry Louis Gates
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and… — Al Goldstein
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure… — Barry Commoner
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine. — Mason Cooley
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught… — Richard Dawkins
I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so… — Zooey Deschanel
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally.… — Ann Druyan
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. — Umberto Eco
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. — Irwin Edman
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked. — Brian Eno
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is… — Marianne Faithfull
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban… — Jerry Falwell
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over… — Dag Hammarskjold
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white… — Tom Hanks
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says,… — James Hillman
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The… — Hypatia
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual… — Diana Wynne Jones
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live… — Tommy Lee Jones

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