Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as… — Jack Kornfield
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are… — Stanley Kunitz
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in… — Marie-Louise von Franz
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary… — Mircea Eliade
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts… — Natalie Goldberg
Myth and tool mutually constitute each other. — Donna J. Haraway
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated… — William Galston
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes… — David Limbaugh
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the… — Edward de Bono
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want… — Gore Vidal
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to… — Michael Shermer
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. — Maya Deren
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these… — Unknown Author
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. — Roberto Calasso
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery:… — Roberto Calasso
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. — BrenÃ© Brown
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in… — Alex Ferguson
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara
Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit… — Jan Karon
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. — Robert D. Putnam
With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together… — Unknown Author

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