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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. -- Ansel Adams
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman. -- Bob Kane
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. -- John F. Kennedy
In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. -- Patrick Ness
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
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
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. -- Janet Frame
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
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. -- Hypatia
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau propounded the need for contracts between the savage and society. The savage also shows that in order to understand the need for civilization and culture, mankind needs to see barbarism. One could not exist without the other. -- Bruno Dumont
I think a myth is created from truth. -- Mark Lanegan
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth. -- C. S. Lewis
There is at least one truth in every myth. -- Suzy Kassem
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth. -- Bob Kane
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. -- David Mitchell
There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning -- Cassandra Clare
The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. -- David Mitchell
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. -- Walter Lippmann
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. -- Roy Basler
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. -- Phyllis McGinley
Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world? -- Kimberly Pauley
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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