All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out… — Steven Blum Copy Share Image
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and… — Thomas Thomson Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity,… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous. — Garbine Muguruza Copy Share Image
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and… — Mansoor Nazeer Copy Share Image
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Cross your fingers, throw salt over your shoulder, knock on wood...simple folk remedies for unfortunate situations. Silly superstitions...but were they based in… — Madelyn Alt Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens 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
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
