Quotes About Myth

In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.

It's really sad how many people believe in curses.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

One does not go back to reconquer the myth, one encounters it anew, when time quakes at its foundations under the empire of extreme danger.

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

The two earliest surviving written versions of this global flood "myth" can be seen today at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology

Archaeologists are adamant that the epoch of the gods, which the Ancient Egyptians, called the First Time, is nothing more than a myth. The Ancient Egyptians, however, who may have been better informed about their past than we are, did not share this view.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

If one thing is accomplished in this story of the aftermath of Gettysburg, it is the hope that we can dispel some of the pure nonsense and myth that has grown up surrounding the Civil War, and which is perpetuated even now by movies, novels, and battle reenactments around the country.

This particular brand of religious myth had not yet really taken hold of society.

only approximately 25 percent of the citizens of the United States and Confederate States were actual professed Christians. This particular brand of religious myth had not yet really taken hold of society.

Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. "So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named them—hesperium, ausonium. Wrong! Mythical! They were ordinary old barium and iodine. We were careful—too careful.

Happiness is a myth,' Karla snapped back angrily. 'It was invented to make us buy things.

Happiness is a myth, Karla once said. It was invented to make us buy things.

Happiness is a myth, Karla snapped back angrily. It was invented to make us buy things.

My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.

Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention and Strasbourg court judgements have proved a highly effective tool in protecting and developing human rights in countries with no tradition of the rule of law.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.