Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back. — James Randi Copy Share Image
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? — Garrett Fort Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ...… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime,… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the… — Emma Goldman 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
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“He gave up. It was no use. She wasn’t listening. He was finding himself in a situation as old as mankind itself:… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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