Ancient Quote by James Christensen

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

— Barbra Streisand

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

— Freeman Dyson

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

— Harold Bloom

“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress has challenged,…

— Ronald Wright

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

We're separated by our myths.

— Hugh Hefner

The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It…

— Julian Huxley

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

— Alan Moore

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

— Jeff Bridges

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg