Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
You should never cut your hair on Friday the 13th, as it results in a death in the family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Friday 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, Feng Shui has mingled with superstition. Luckily, it’s easy to expose myths. Don’t think ‘things’, think ‘energy’.” — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
“Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.” — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The name of Robert G. Ingersoll is in the pantheon of the world. More than any other man who ever lived he… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada,… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Blair Waldorf: Signs are for the religious, superstitious, and lower class. — Gossip Girl Copy Share Image
“I can say with certitude that superstitions are more deleterious than black magic.” — Sagey Malik Copy Share Image
“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
