Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. — Hunter S. Thompson
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. — Leon Trotsky
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be… — Paul Tsongas
I am attracted to myths. — Tina Turner
All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant… — Gabrielle Union
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning. — Joan D. Vinge
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. — Henry A. Wallace
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… — Alan Watts
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. — Robert Anton Wilson
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her… — Naomi Wolf
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. — Tom Wolfe
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this… — Thom Yorke
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. — Sarah Zettel
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of… — Julian Baggini
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -… — Douglas Rushkoff
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets… — Ashwin Sanghi
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. — Ashwin Sanghi
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the… — Bertrand Russell
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe. — Madeleine L'Engle
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to… — John F. Kennedy

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