Folklore Quote by Paul Smith Download Open image “When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.” — Paul Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folklore Knowledge
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say,… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw.… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
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