Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. — Gustave Herve Copy Share Image
“An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“superstition is what remains after the original understanding of a concept has been lost over time.” — Freddy Silva Copy Share Image
“Aaah ... said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational… — Benjamin Wood Copy Share Image
“When you consider the great writings of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Romans, how they are saturated with mythology,… — Steve Kumar Copy Share Image
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everything, it gradually developed… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“only while under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever invested with the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you change your bed on Friday the 13th, you will see bad dreams throughout the night. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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