Myth is a well known story which was made up in the past to explain natural events or to justify religious beliefs or social customs.

1. Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. 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. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable
Hypatia

2. I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe it was the only way she could break away from her mother, maybe Demeter was a bad parent the way Lear was a bad parent, denying nature, including the nature of children to leave their parents. Maybe Persephone thought Hades was the infinitely cool older man who held the knowledge she sought, maybe she loved the darkness, the six months of winter, the sharp taste of pomegranates, the freedom from her mother, maybe she knew that to be truly alive death had to be part of the picture just as winter must. It was as the queen of hell that she became an adult and came into power. Hades’s realm is called the underworld, and so are the urban realms of everything outside the law. And as in Hopi creation myths, where humans and other beings emerge from underground, so it’s from the underground that culture emerges in this civilization.
Rebecca Solnit

3. Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

4. Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
Phil Mcgraw

5. The ruined remains of an ancient city.
Abney Park (All The Myths Are True)

6. Theological myths suit philosophers, physical and psychic suit poets, mixed suit religious initiations, since every initiation aims at uniting us with the world and the Gods.
Sallustius

7. There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings

8. All the legends. They think this proves that history was not as myth has.
Abney Park

9. Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
Charles de Lint

10. As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
Nathan Parsons

11. Don’t fret, boy. I’m not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they’re from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.
Nahoko Uehashi

12. Believing myths about vaccines is not the same as GETTING THE FACTS. And that is the core problem
Anonymous

13. 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
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14. I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Trudi Canavan

15. Debase the myths which give a face and a name.
Mechina

16. If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
Howard Mumford Jones

17. I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.
Alan Lee

18. American education has been littered with failed fads and all the myths concerning our diets.
Diane Ravitch

19. Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.
Michael Tsarison

20. Today's religions are tomorrow's ancient myth
Anonymous

21. There's two principal myths about shamrock that it's unique to Ireland, and that it never flowers. Charles Nelson

22. All those old myths and legends and fairytales didn't just appear out of nowhere for no good reason, you know.
H. M. Forester

23. 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

24. Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
Natalie Angier

25. II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
Mads Mikkelsen

26. The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
Diodorus Siculus

27. Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

28. Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.
Francois Jacob

29. Unlocking some myths about who i am, truth, freedom
Anonymous

30. The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
Michel Tournier

31. Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
Carl Jung

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32. I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

33. We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth—if such a thing can even be said to exist.
Isaac Asimov

34. After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of ‘truth’, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear
J.R.R. Tolkien

35. What if all the myths were true.
Liu Kang

36. Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world
Jane Caputi

37. Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world’s foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops
Ron Peterson

38. One thing that comes out of myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Joseph Campbell

39. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She’s strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of ‘The Hunger Games. Isabelle Fuhrman

40. We make our own myths. Telling (A Mile Of Broken Stone)
Anonymous

41. You might think, ‘Is this the FBI that I’ve seen on TV?’ The difference in the myth of the FBI and the reality of the FBI is as big as the Grand Canyon.
Ron Woods

42. I'm a gift from the sky, for the myths be i.
Kyprios

43. The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we’re going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years – the last 50 years really – has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
J. Michael Straczynski

44. Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper

45. Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of your mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
Stanley Kunitz

46. Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Barbra Streisand

47. Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood

48. Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

49. A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman

50. I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
Bob Kane

51. God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
Iris Murdoch

52. Always be true to your feelings because the more you deny what you feel, the stronger it becomes
Anonymous

53. Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
Joseph Campbell

54. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams

55. The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
John C. Maxwell

56. Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
Robert Anton Wilson

57. Myths are, in fact…neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.
Stephen H. Furrer

58. It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo.
Paulo Freire

59. 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

60. According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
Plato, The Symposium

61. Why did so many antique myths agree that hell was a circular place1.
Lois Mcmaster Bujold

62. I am attracted to myths.
Tina Turner