Myth Quotes

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

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 myth.

The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

I am attracted to myths.

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

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.