Best 472 quotes in «myth quotes» category

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

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

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

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

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

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

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

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

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

We're separated by our myths.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us. [a symbol] also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and elements of reality. A great play gives us not only a new vision of the human scene, but it opens up hidden depths of our own being.