It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Friday 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I cross two fingers, a binary precaution against hex, effective as superconductor or simple superstition.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“When you consider the great writings of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Romans, how they are saturated with mythology,… — Steve Kumar Copy Share Image
“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational… — Benjamin Wood Copy Share Image
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows).… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach of the Teatro" made us all… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
When you need hits the next day, I watch episodes of 'New Girl.' That's my superstition. It gets me locked in. — Corey Seager Copy Share Image
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Which, in morals, leads away from superstition, Which, in politics, leads away from government, and Which, in art, leads away from Tradition.” — Various Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
“That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
