Superstitions Quotes · Page 10

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

— William Ralph Inge

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

— Garrett Fort

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

— Richard Matheson

“Cast a curse in Spanish at them, point at them and do creepy gestures, voodoo they understand ...”

— Scott Edward Shjefte

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

— Shereen El Feki

“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.”

— Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari

“Not believing in some so-called superstitions is the biggest type of superstition!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions…

— Anne Rice

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

— Thomas Paine

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in…

— Francis Bacon

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone…

— Gil Gerard

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

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

— Francis Arinze

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

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than…

— Samuel Chadwick

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The…

— Leigh Bardugo

Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,…

— Randall Jarrell

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the…

— A.J. Ayer

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business…

— Abhijit Naskar

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment,…

— Robert Breault

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that,…

— Richard Matheson

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

— George Eliot

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

— Aldous Huxley

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

— Celia Green

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

— John Dewey

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

— V. S. Pritchett

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— James F. Cooper

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

— Silius Italicus

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

— Thomas Huxley

“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Margery Allingham