#myths

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#hampered #must #myths #needs #today

I don't care what people's myths are about me. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#care #i #me #myths #people

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#did #express #fictitious #greek #heroic

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ↗

— George Orwell

#believed #myths #tend #true #which

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. ↗

— Karl Popper

#criticism #must #myths #science

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#authentic #become #begin #creative #creative place

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#after #aggressive #american #american lives #bay