Top 100 Truth Myth Quotes
#1. What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.
Barry Moltz
#2. Myth: Garlic repels vampires.
Truth: Try telling that to my dad.
Kimberly Pauley
#3. Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire.
Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.
Kimberly Pauley
#4. Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
Chris Priestley
#5. Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien Morel
Louisa Burton
#6. There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#7. A myth is a story that tells the truth, whether or not the story is factually true.
Chuck Turner
#8. The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
Alan Garner
#9. Myth: Vampires can read minds.
Truth: Geez, I hope not. But it would explain some things about my mom.
Kimberly Pauley
#10. Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
William, Saroyan
#11. What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Walter Lippmann
#12. I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.
Joseph Fiennes
#13. The best way to hide the truth is to shroud it in myth
Sam A. Patel
#14. This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
John Granger
#17. Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor 'a philosophy.' It is the summing up and actuality of them all.
C.S. Lewis
#18. But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated
which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.
Julius Segal
#19. Myth The United States of America is made up of fifty states. Truth Technically, no. There are only forty-six states in the United States - Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths.
Leland Gregory
#20. A myth ... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Christopher Vogler
#21. Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Joseph Campbell
#22. The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.
Clinton Rossiter
#23. Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
Brad Holland
#24. What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.
C.S. Lewis
#25. Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.
Philip Zaleski
#26. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
Pearl Zhu
#27. 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.
John Mason Brown
#28. Myth: Vampires have the power to charm people.
Truth: Kinda depends on the vampire if you ask me.
Kimberly Pauley
#29. The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.
Jessica Fortunato
#30. Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Mark Ruffalo
#31. A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.
Tom Harpur
#32. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy
Tim O'Shea
#33. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne Robinson
#34. The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
Richard Dawkins
#35. The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.
Belart Wright
#36. There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.
Suzy Kassem
#37. What myth carries is not fact, not history, but truth - the ultimate reality. The Jesus story carries this ultimate reality, and that's why, two thousand years later, it remains so compelling.
Adyashanti
#38. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.
Raif Badawi
#39. Myth: Caffeine doesn't effect vampires
Truth: True, but I guess it doesn't matter, since you don't get tired anyway.
Kimberly Pauley
#40. If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth.
Joseph Campbell
#41. 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
#42. The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
David Mitchell
#43. Every myth has a modicum of truth
Lonny Lee
#44. A widely popular
myth is still a myth and a truth ignored will still qualify as a
truth.
Arpit Bakshi
#45. And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there.
Philip K. Dick
#46. 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.
G. C. Berkouwer
#47. The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.
David Duchovny
#48. A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. It is based on fact. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.
Linda Seger
#49. Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
Phyllis McGinley
#50. Myth: Vampires have huge stockpiles of gold and treasure.
Truth: If that were true, I'd be able to get my dad to actually buy me a car.
Kimberly Pauley
#51. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people.
Timothy Snyder
#52. What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
Albert Camus
#53. To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
Roy Basler
#54. Anachron's Law:
There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it.
Anachron's Corollary:
There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.
George Hammond
#55. Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#56. Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Felix Alba-Juez
#57. And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself some sublime truth that restores without myth or language.
Anne Rice
#58. As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth ... Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth.
Kathleen Raine
#59. with in a infinite myth their lies a eternal truth who sees it all. varuna has thousand eyes indra has hundred and you and i oly two.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#60. Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.
Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world?
Kimberly Pauley
#61. The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Steve Berry
#62. Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
#63. Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.
Robert Kirkman
#64. It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
Bob Kane
#65. I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.
David Attenborough
#66. Myth isn't about factual or historical truth, but about a deeper truth. In ancient times, people saw myth in a very different light - as a vehicle that can transmit and carry a subtlety and richness of experience that simply cannot be conveyed by linear, conceptual forms of language.
Adyashanti
#67. For Trisha
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull.
Gregory Orr
#68. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition
Julian Baggini
#69. Myth: Vampires can shapeshift into bats at will.
Truth: Who would want to turn into a giant bat?
Wait, don't answer that.
Kimberly Pauley
#70. The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.
David Rosenfelt
#71. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. There is no mystery. Truth is here - always present. Mystery is in the mind and mind is a myth.
Rashmit Kalra
#73. Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#74. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#75. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Che Guevara
#76. The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#77. We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not, like truth, abstract; nor is it, like direct experience, bound to the particular.
C.S. Lewis
#80. A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
C.S. Lewis
#82. The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
Ken Wilber
#83. 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.
Ashwin Sanghi
#84. A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is
or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
Isaac Asimov
#85. What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.
Nancy Isenberg
#86. There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning
Cassandra Clare
#87. There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.
Rose Wilder Lane
#88. As for the men in power,
they are so anxious to establish
the myth of infallibility that they
do their utmost to ignore truth.
Boris Pasternak
#89. The truth of a myth ... is not in its words but its patterns.
David Mitchell
#90. A myth is essentially true because it is a symbol, and a symbol is something that points beyond itself to a truth that might be difficult or impossible to express in ordinary language.
Harvey Cox
#91. No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children ... I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
Richard Dawkins
#92. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
Diane Setterfield
#93. I'm learning that "myth" doesn't mean what I thought it did. It really means, "based on truth" and the truth is terrifying.
Amy A. Bartol
#94. Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
Stephen King
#95. Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
Laurence Overmire
#96. Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.
D.M. Thomas
#97. There is at least one truth in every myth.
Suzy Kassem
#98. Here's the truth about healing. It's a fucking myth - an idea they try to sell you on to keep you from killing yourself. You love someone and they leave, but they never entirely go away. You feel them there, acutely, like an amputated limb.
Paula Garner
#99. [Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.
Shauna Niequist
#100. After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.
Loren Eiseley
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