Definition of Myth

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Definition of Myth

Myth

A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

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Myth Quotations

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

I am not a myth.
Marlene Dietrich

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Myth Translations

myth in Afrikaans is mite
myth in Dutch is mythe
myth in French is mythe
myth in German is Mythos, Sage
myth in Portuguese is mito
myth in Spanish is mito

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