Superstitions Quotes · Page 5

Superstitions add texture to life.

— Ilona Andrews

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

— Charles Lamb

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

— Francis Bacon

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

— Edward Gibbon

Superstition has its practical uses.

— Barbara Mertz

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

— Dan Henderson

I have routines but not superstitions.

— Garbine Muguruza

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

— Theophrastus

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

— Paul Kenneth Keller

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

— RuPaul

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

— Charles Spurgeon

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

— Baron d'Holbach

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do…

— Michael Owen

“The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.”

— Colin Cotterill

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian…

— Harriet Martineau

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them…

— Thomas Hobbes

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one…

— Thomas Jefferson

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and…

— Edward Gibbon

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days…

— Adrian Desmond

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach…

— Paul Blanshard

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,…

— Thomas Carlyle

If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man…

— Anonymous

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as…

— Immanuel Kant

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

— Gore Vidal

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is…

— Mark Hopkins

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the…

— Carl Sagan

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then…

— Sebastian Faulks

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

— Benjamin Whichcote

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

— Donald E. Westlake

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

— Denis Diderot

But superstition, like belief, must die.

— Philip Larkin

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

— Anonymous

“Values should dictate a society, not superstitions.”

— Abhijit Naskar