Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
“It is easy to scoff at "native superstition" from the back of an elephant with a powerful rifle in your hand.” — Patrick Newman Copy Share Image
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are… — Charles Spurgeon 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
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe Copy Share Image
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Caretaker, Sonnet What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of… — Francis Bacon 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
“A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster 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
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never… — Ralph Steadman 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
“The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to… — The Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother — Voltaire Copy Share Image
![“No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.” quote by Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68e/henry-george-8103_absurd_no-theory-is-too-false-no-fable-too-absu_70212.jpg)
