“...people don't think in churches. [ Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion. ]” — Robert Noyce 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
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith… — Charles A. Coulombe Copy Share Image
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. — Jeremy Taylor 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
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same… — Kris Humphries Copy Share Image
What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is… — Naomi janowitz Copy Share Image
“ [How "magical charms" work for healing:] [It is Divine Love that heals and cures. But many people have difficulty accessing the… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life, and thereby rebel against our creator:… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“What age or period of life is the most addicted to superstition? The weakest and most timid. What sex? The same answer… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“(On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date… — Richard Luckhurst Copy Share Image
“Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story—the soul… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. — David Almond Copy Share Image
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
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