“If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.” — M.K. Bhutta Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
I thought that I'd never become a UFC fighter if I bought a ticket to go to the UFC. I don't know… — Renato Moicano Copy Share Image
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Hellen Keller Copy Share Image
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then… — John Selden Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The link between extreme weather and global warming has as much scientific basis as the pagan rite of human sacrifice to ensure… — Ralph B. Alexander Copy Share Image
“A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of… — Jody Shields Copy Share Image
The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”11 As individuals and… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in witchcraft and superstition, but have never had much traffic with ghosts, so I began asking people… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons. I was trying to like downgrade that word to superstition.… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“{ The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dead Men's Tale (The Sonnet) They say, time and tide wait for none, Lest the bird learns it can fly. The best… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Not believing in some so-called superstitions is the biggest type of superstition!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition. — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
Cutting your nails on Friday the 13th is again a bad omen and can bring you some serious bad luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image