Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people… — Terry Pratchett 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
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
“I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it… — Garrett Fort Copy Share Image
Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
“To call the belief in substantial human equality a superstition is to insult superstition. It might be unwarranted to believe in leprechauns,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
