“Your belief without logical evidence & true knowledge is nothing but primitive superstition.” — Md. Mujib Ullah 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
“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.” — Stefan Molyneux 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
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Somehow, despite all the science homebrewing requires, I’d become irrationally superstitious.” — Lucy Burningham Copy Share Image
“My spirituality has to do with equality, ethics and accountability, not aura, incense and vibration.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The effort to put down Christian Science by law is one of the craziest enterprises upon which medical men waste their energies.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the… — Eugene Asa Carr Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, —… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings… — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker Copy Share Image
“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are… — Doug Ten Rose Copy Share Image
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If you were to pass a funeral procession on Friday the 13th, you will die the very next day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man who is cowardly at heart and has not emancipated his mind will be afraid of non-existent ghosts and gods.” — Chi-fang Ho Copy Share Image
“The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a… — David Wright Copy Share Image
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Friday the 13th is a very bad day for a new beginning, and thus starting a new business on this day will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty Copy Share Image
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