I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. — David Almond Copy Share Image
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write… — Paul Washer 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
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
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson 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
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear. — Zach Johnson Copy Share Image
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I used to be very superstitious, and then I got too much into that. I just try to stay away from all… — John Collins Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“superstitions, our worries and our wars; they will gawk at our cruelty. They will study our art and argue over our history.… — Mark Manson 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
![“What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e73/thomas-jefferson-43_american-founding-fa_what-has-been-the-effect-of-religious-co_3189614.jpg)
![“[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.” quote by Arthur Brisbane](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d06/arthur-brisbane-27401_brutality_st-patrick-was-a-terror-to-any-snake-tha_2682719.png)
![“Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see…” quote by Klas Pontus Arnoldson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/57b/klas-pontus-arnoldson-69240_action_without-hope-and-confidence-in-a-cause-t_300349.jpg)
![“Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.” quote by Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fd7/mahatma-gandhi-23_be-brave_before-hindus-and-moslems-dare-think-of_68442.jpg)
