Quotes about Superstition

Superstition is the poetry of life. Votes: 4

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Votes: 4

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Votes: 4

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Votes: 4

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Votes: 4

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' Votes: 4

Theology is Classified Superstition. Votes: 3

Superstition has its practical uses. Votes: 3

Superstition is the spleen of the soul. Votes: 3

Superstition is but the fear of belief. Votes: 3

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty. Votes: 3

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. Votes: 3

Superstition is part of the poetry of life. Votes: 3

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Votes: 3

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. Votes: 3

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. Votes: 3

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. Votes: 3

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them. Votes: 3

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. Votes: 3

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. Votes: 3

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. Votes: 3

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. Votes: 3

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. Votes: 3

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. Votes: 3

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten. Votes: 3

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. Votes: 3

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother Votes: 3

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. Votes: 3

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. Votes: 3

I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder. Votes: 3

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. Votes: 3

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. Votes: 3

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? Votes: 3

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. Votes: 3

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Votes: 3

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. Votes: 3

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. Votes: 3

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. Votes: 3

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go." Votes: 3

If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition! Votes: 3

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge Votes: 3

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man. Votes: 3

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion. Votes: 3

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising. Votes: 3

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution. Votes: 3

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance. Votes: 3

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs. Votes: 3

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. Votes: 3

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does. Votes: 3

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. Votes: 3

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears. Votes: 3

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period. Votes: 3

Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere. Votes: 3

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe. Votes: 3

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Votes: 3

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety. Votes: 3

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. Votes: 3

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. Votes: 2

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Votes: 2

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. Votes: 2

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. Votes: 2

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. Votes: 2

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. Votes: 2

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. Votes: 2

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. Votes: 2

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Votes: 2

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 2

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. Votes: 2

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. Votes: 2

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. Votes: 2

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. Votes: 2

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. Votes: 2

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Votes: 2

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Votes: 2

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. Votes: 2

Conscience without judgment is superstition. Votes: 0

Christianity is a pestilent superstition. Votes: 0

Such crimes has superstition caused. Votes: 0

But superstition, like belief, must die... Votes: 0

There is superstition in avoiding superstition. Votes: 0

Religion is not removed by removing superstition. Votes: 0

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. Votes: 0

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. Votes: 0

If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Votes: 0

In all superstition wise men follow fools. Votes: 0

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. Votes: 0

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition. Votes: 0

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts. Votes: 0

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. Votes: 0

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present. Votes: 0

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. Votes: 0

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. Votes: 0

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. Votes: 0

The birth of science was the death of superstition. Votes: 0

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. Votes: 0

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down. Votes: 0

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. Votes: 0

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. Votes: 0

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. Votes: 0

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. Votes: 0

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. Votes: 0

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. Votes: 0

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. Votes: 0

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Votes: 0

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition. Votes: 0

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. Votes: 0

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. Votes: 0

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck. Votes: 0

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. Votes: 0

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition. Votes: 0

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Votes: 0

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. Votes: 0

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. Votes: 0

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day. Votes: 0

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition. Votes: 0

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst. Votes: 0

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. Votes: 0

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. Votes: 0

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. Votes: 0

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. Votes: 0

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition. Votes: 0

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition. Votes: 0

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. Votes: 0

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. Votes: 0

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. Votes: 0

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. Votes: 0

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you. Votes: 0

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better. Votes: 0

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. Votes: 0

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. Votes: 0

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition. Votes: 0

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window. Votes: 0

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. Votes: 0

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. Votes: 0

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Votes: 0

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence Votes: 0

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Votes: 0

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. Votes: 0

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Votes: 0

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! Votes: 0

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted. Votes: 0

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them. Votes: 0

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. Votes: 0

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. Votes: 0

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. Votes: 0

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. Votes: 0

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition Votes: 0

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. Votes: 0

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Votes: 0

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. Votes: 0

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. Votes: 0

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? Votes: 0

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger. Votes: 0

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. Votes: 0

India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking. Votes: 0

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Votes: 0

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. Votes: 0

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. Votes: 0

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. Votes: 0

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. Votes: 0

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. Votes: 0

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. Votes: 0

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. Votes: 0

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist Votes: 0

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men. Votes: 0

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. Votes: 0

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . Votes: 0

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. Votes: 0

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. Votes: 0

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. Votes: 0

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. Votes: 0

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. Votes: 0

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. Votes: 0

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! Votes: 0

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. Votes: 0

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. Votes: 0

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. Votes: 0

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. Votes: 0

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! Votes: 0

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. Votes: 0

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. Votes: 0

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition. Votes: 0

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. Votes: 0

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it. Votes: 0

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. Votes: 0

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. Votes: 0

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back. Votes: 0

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? Votes: 0

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend. Votes: 0

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. Votes: 0

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. Votes: 0

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. Votes: 0

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. Votes: 0

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. Votes: 0

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983) Votes: 0

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. Votes: 0

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. Votes: 0

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. Votes: 0

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. Votes: 0

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. Votes: 0

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. Votes: 0

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Votes: 0

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. Votes: 0

The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus. Votes: 0

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. Votes: 0

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. Votes: 0

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. Votes: 0

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. Votes: 0

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. Votes: 0

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies. Votes: 0

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans. Votes: 0

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship. Votes: 0

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. Votes: 0

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. Votes: 0

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. Votes: 0

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind. Votes: 0

I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition. Votes: 0

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition. Votes: 0

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. Votes: 0

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control. Votes: 0

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. Votes: 0

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. Votes: 0

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. Votes: 0

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag. Votes: 0

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. Votes: 0

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus. Votes: 0

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven. Votes: 0

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. Votes: 0

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps Votes: 0

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response. Votes: 0

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking. Votes: 0

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. Votes: 0

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually. Votes: 0

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? Votes: 0

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order. Votes: 0

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly. Votes: 0

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Votes: 0

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. Votes: 0

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense. Votes: 0

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition. Votes: 0

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. Votes: 0

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. Votes: 0

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition. Votes: 0

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near. Votes: 0

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it. Votes: 0

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition. Votes: 0

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. Votes: 0

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. Votes: 0

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness! Votes: 0

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. Votes: 0

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm. Votes: 0

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Votes: 0

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. Votes: 0

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. Votes: 0

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. Votes: 0

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. Votes: 0

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations. Votes: 0

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you. Votes: 0

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense. Votes: 0

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me. Votes: 0

Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress. Votes: 0

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous. Votes: 0

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it. Votes: 0

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing. Votes: 0

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself. Votes: 0

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains. Votes: 0

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds. Votes: 0

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away. Votes: 0

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance. Votes: 0

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. Votes: 0

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern. Votes: 0

Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies. Votes: 0

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce. Votes: 0

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science. Votes: 0

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. Votes: 0

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Votes: 0

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. Votes: 0

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. Votes: 0

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition. Votes: 0

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition. Votes: 0

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century. Votes: 0

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. Votes: 0

Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice. Votes: 0

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition. Votes: 0

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. [Lat., Superstitio, in qua inest inanis timor Dei; religio, quae dei pio cultu continetur.] Votes: 0

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism. Votes: 0

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions. Votes: 0

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. Votes: 0

As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them. Votes: 0

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day... Votes: 0

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty. Votes: 0

Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged. Votes: 0

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. Votes: 0

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery. Votes: 0

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. Votes: 0

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness. Votes: 0

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with. Votes: 0

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. Votes: 0

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. Votes: 0

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it. Votes: 0

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque. Votes: 0

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy. Votes: 0

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure. Votes: 0

The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict. Votes: 0

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Votes: 0

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress... Votes: 0

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. Votes: 0

Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ... Votes: 0

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Votes: 0

The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction. Votes: 0

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained? Votes: 0

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic. Votes: 0

That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them. Votes: 0

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. Votes: 0

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that. Votes: 0

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that. Votes: 0

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless. Votes: 0

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach. Votes: 0

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. Votes: 0

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. Votes: 0

If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age. Votes: 0

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science. Votes: 0

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. Votes: 0

Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition. Votes: 0

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God. Votes: 0

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days. Votes: 0