Superstitions Quotes · Page 7

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

— Bill Press

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,

— Hypatia

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

— Anonymous

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

— Helen Keller

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

— William Gilmore Simms

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

— David Hume

“Reasoning is the cure for superstitions and bigotry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

— Hermann Graf Keyserling

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

— Maimonides

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do,…

— Voltaire

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

— Charles Lindbergh

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

— Jeff Bridges

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

— Albert Einstein

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

— Thomas Hobbes

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

— Tryon Edwards

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

— Laurence Sterne

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

— Thomas Fuller

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with…

— Elizabeth David

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we…

— Swami Vivekananda

“In Gautama Buddha’s day you could put superstitions and omens down to a lack of education, but I am not sure what…

— karma yeshe rabgye

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the…

— Anonymous

Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains…

— Howard Thompson

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,…

— Voltaire

Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were…

— Mary Stewart

Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human…

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

— Mark Twain

Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate…

— John Adams

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order…

— Charles Darwin

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...

— Sarah Addison Allen

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

— Jacque Fresco

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

— Albert Einstein

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

— Voltaire

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

— Philip Jose Farmer

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

— Chinua Achebe

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

— Kedar Joshi