Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run." -Babe Ruth” — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
“Ape chase the “after”, over life, for apes have alcohol in their vein.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
If you were born on Friday the 13th your entire life will be marked by bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of… — Elihu Palmer 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
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Which, in morals, leads away from superstition, Which, in politics, leads away from government, and Which, in art, leads away from Tradition.” — Various 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
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“There is no satyayug, tretayug, dvapar or kali, there is only abhiyug - the yug here and now.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 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
In "Mother-Father-God," I talk about how the new thought movement led me to be superstitious. I think that might resonate with a… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“{ The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll 's funeral, quoted here } Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“The Seer's Map by Stewart Stafford Howling dog, thou cursèd hound, Plaguest thy master with baleful sound, The cur's yelps taint the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“People like to talk a big game. They may talk about religion or magic and superstition but in the end, this is… — John Kreiter Copy Share Image
“ Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
“He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image