“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened and… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else. — Henry Allingham Copy Share Image
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Hellen Keller 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
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of… — Meryle Secrest Copy Share Image
“Like ugly Asian babies, valid superstitions don’t exist. At best, any perceived effect of a superstition is you merely psyching yourself out.… — Orlando Winters Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them. — Curt Siodmak Copy Share Image
Cutting your nails on Friday the 13th is again a bad omen and can bring you some serious bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
