Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible. — Louis B. Mayer Copy Share Image
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — Erich Ludendorff Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Superstitions actually played a big role in my life. I wouldn't even go on a casting call if I had a hunch… — Charlotte Rae Copy Share Image
The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out… — Steven Blum Copy Share Image
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld… — William Carey Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
