When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions. — Brian McBride Copy Share Image
“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“I can say with certitude that superstitions are more deleterious than black magic.” — Sagey Malik 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the… — John Cassian 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
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
“...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
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“We always believe in ‘the truth’; only other people believe in superstitions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual. — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee. — Natalie Coughlin Copy Share Image
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.” — K.X. Song Copy Share Image
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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