Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a… — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your… — Andrew Carnegie 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
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a… — Stu Jackson Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
