Debunking Myths Quotes & Sayings

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning. — George William Curtis

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight. — James Rosenquist

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. — Philip Wylie

I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have. — Neal Ascherson

If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended. — Julia Gregson

Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having. — Jo Nesbo

Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing
rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply because they like to read
tend to be frustrated when they can't rapidly scan the text and summarize it in one sentence that connects it to some existing discourse in which they have been involved. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles. — Francis William Aston

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe. — Justin Long

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. — Abraham Lincoln

I would want to know if, at 15, if my daughter loves me the way she does right now. And if she's proud of me, just because I want to be a good example for her, and seeing her grow and how much she loves Daddy saying 'Daddy, te quiero mucho,' which means 'I like you a lot,' those are the things that melt my heart. — Juan Pablo Galavis