Quotes About Myth

I am pretty sure the myth of me Is better than the reality.

Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

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

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.