Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is that we are running after the superstitions while we also know it, nothing is there to get.” — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray Copy Share Image
My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it… — Garrett Fort Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. — Gustave Herve Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to learn and evolve, there is hope for you yet - if not, the world will pity you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
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
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Seafarers of yore were superstitious lot and paid a great deal of attention not to invoke the ire of the Gods. Walking… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppressed I Rise Copy Share Image
“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Seer's Map by Stewart Stafford Howling dog, thou cursèd hound, Plaguest thy master with baleful sound, The cur's yelps taint the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
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