Express Quote by Michael Shermer

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

— Phil Cousineau

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

— George Orwell

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

— C. S. Lewis

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts…

— Haruki Murakami

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to…

— Laura Riding

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some…

— Northrop Frye

“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held…

— N.T. Wright

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our…

— Stephen H. Furrer