“It's funny how people choose to believe in magic, miracles, fate and all sorts of superstition but not in themselves!” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on… — Jenny Ryan Copy Share Image
If you were to leave the calendar on Friday the 13th, you will be killed by a witch the very next day.w — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make… — David Whiteland Copy Share Image
“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants superstitiously called werewolves' nests. Coming across one… — Jody Shields Copy Share Image
“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)” — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual. — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“superstition is what remains after the original understanding of a concept has been lost over time.” — Freddy Silva Copy Share Image
“Aaah ... said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“African church is a fusion of half bible truth and abundance of superstition, the latter aspect, leaving nothing remaining for the oracle.” — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh Copy Share Image
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
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