“Our tragedy is that we are running after the superstitions while we also know it, nothing is there to get.” — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. — Gustave Herve Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate… — Anonymous 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
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with… — Elizabeth David 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
“In Gautama Buddha’s day you could put superstitions and omens down to a lack of education, but I am not sure what… — karma yeshe rabgye Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“That window which connects you to the agony of other people; that’s your soul. Close that window and you are soulless. And… — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Anne has small superstitions which she uses to dispel anxieties. For instance, if she can make it to the fourth stain on… — Megan Boyle Copy Share Image
Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we… — Sherif Gaber Copy Share Image
“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image