The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do… — Michael Owen Copy Share Image
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant 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
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear. — Zach Johnson 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
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image