The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.” — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.” — M.K. Bhutta Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“All however agreed, that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and to drink of the waters of the well or… — Walter Scott 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
The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“[In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good- "Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing." "I thought… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
My ring name is 'Bullet,' which was given to me by Pavel. It's, like, tradition for your coach to give you your… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock 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
“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“...this so-called animisn that not so much the Fan Nannies but everybody else around here subscribes to. can we really just write… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“"Superstition is thriving. Pedantry is thriving. Sectarianism is thriving. Belief is dying out” — Alif the Unseen G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“...people don't think in churches. [ Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion. ]” — Robert Noyce Copy Share Image
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