221 Myth Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Hannes Alfven

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

Myth Become Lost Society Aimless Back Hundred Hundred Years Ourselves Horizon Rather Point Mythology Over Came Years Lot Western Western Society Going Wandering Where Really Who Last

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. J. R. R. Tolkien

Truth Art World Myth Reflect Moral Must Solution Religious Primary Contain Known Real Error Form Real World Explicit Elements

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong. James Comey

Myth Society Our Wrong Brave Afraid Being Being Afraid Means

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals. Kamal Haasan

Religion Me Science Ethics Myth Live Philosophy Easily Prone Somehow Rather More Rituals Myths Towards Lean Am Than Cannot

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. Umberto Eco

People Myth Easy Read Want Publishers Things

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians. Amitava Kumar

Rest Myth India Indians Pretty Blast Put Being Much

There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings. Amy Tan

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. Ashwin Sanghi

Me History You Old Myth Past Believe Tend Mystery Take Between Combine Like Know Reads Proverb Repeat Been Get Going Where Patterns Themselves Then Connections Present

I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until I was in college for theater school in Boston that I realized I can actually start going to open mics and figuring this out. Baron Vaughn

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it. Beau Willimon

Happiness Freedom You Myth Think Complacent Way Uncomfortable Put Feel Makes Very Maybe Want Desire

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you. Ben Mendelsohn

Life Success You Myth Transformation Believe Changes Life Changes More Where

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. Bernadine Dohrn

Today You People Myth Young Group Think Relative Ways Some Small Small Group Almost Know Partly Around Felt Always Doing Opposition Sixties Young People Barrier

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs. Bill Gross

Political Myth Enough Software Those Machines Value-Added Jobs Higher Write Writers Without Era Replacement Accountants Modern May Modern Era Being Paying Displaced Even Medical Technicians

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

Myth Stupid Think Other Constantly American Any Public American Public Need

It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time. Camila Alves

Time You Myth Hair Your Wash

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists. Cate Blanchett

Myth Guess Private Quite Prefer Actor

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