A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Your belief without logical evidence & true knowledge is nothing but primitive superstition.” — Md. Mujib Ullah Copy Share Image
“... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.” — David Brin Copy Share Image
“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I look at what we call faith, and all I see is superstition and subjugation . . . They create false divisions,… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The name of Robert G. Ingersoll is in the pantheon of the world. More than any other man who ever lived he… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It will seem to many persons very inconsistent with their ideas of the dignity of a spirit that they should appear and… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine,’ wrote Theophrastus, who lived during the founding of the Library of Alexandria. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have my superstitions, though. They could be termed quirks. I have to add up all numbers: there are some people I… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition. — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
“Not believing in some so-called superstitions is the biggest type of superstition!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image