Myth Quotes

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Truth, Enemy

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

Age, Human, Able

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus

War, Storm, Clouds

I am not a myth.
Marlene Dietrich

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Richard Dawkins

Poetry, Reality, Culture

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts

Try, Sense, Image

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin

Black, Why, Soul

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

Down, Said, Write

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau

Him, Give, Alcohol

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science, Technology, Lives

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Peace, Religion, Help

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

Truth, Live, Angry

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
Jeff Bridges

Good, Technology, Help

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
David Herbert Lawrence

Experience, Deep, Human

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Art, Moment

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Audre Lorde

Giving, Words, Destroy

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
Brian Eno

Stupid, American, Public

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 personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf

Beauty, Society, Woman

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
Tori Amos

Another, Older, Chose

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne

Creativity, Once, Artist

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Daniel Radcliffe

Long, Wrong, Else

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
Robert Smith

Rock, Living, Crap

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
Jessica Lange

Jackie Chan is a myth.
Jackie Chan

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Together, Union

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Leon Trotsky

Reality, Become, Patriotic

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
J. Michael Straczynski

Society, Lost, Become

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Today, Party, Democratic

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
Jessica Lange

Life, Successful, Person

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