Top Myths Quotes
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
Suzanne Farrell
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon
Camryn Manheim 
Ann Druyan 
George Orwell 
Emperor Hirohito 
Ray Bradbury 
Stanley Kunitz 
Barbra Streisand All Myths Quotes
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Ann Druyan 
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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Michael Shermer
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The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
Charles Eastman
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
Bob Kane
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
Camryn Manheim
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