Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a… — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“They also thought there were spirits called ‘daimons’ around. Some were good and protected you; some were evil and could lead you… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
“That Papistry and superstition may be utterly suppressed, according to the intention of the Acts of Parliament, repeated in the 5th Act,… — Various Copy Share Image
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I think there are probably ghosts in the world. I have not seen one but I feel like I felt the presence… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
“Do not disturb your mind,” said Imlac, “with other hopes or fears than reason may suggest; if you are pleased with the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall] [He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today,… — Josiah P. Mendum Copy Share Image
“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the far-fetched, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the… — James George Frazer Copy Share Image
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It really is Beyond the limit of respectable superstition To confuse my voice with a peacock's.” — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, superstition is terrible, terrible! oh, it is the great defect in our Indian character!” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and… — Mansoor Nazeer Copy Share Image
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
“ Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy? How many things served us yesterday for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
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