Superstitions Quotes · Page 9

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with…

— Gore Vidal

As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the…

— Harriet Martineau

The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…

— Karl Popper

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

— Aldous Huxley

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man…

— Anonymous

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the…

— Helen Hayes

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity…

— Arthur Balfour

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems…

— Bernard Beckett

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most…

— Hypatia

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

— John William Fletcher

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken…

— Abraham Kuyper

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we…

— Baruch Spinoza

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being…

— Ezra Levant

Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced…

— Carlton J. H. Hayes

“Truth have been winning against lies, but truth is still struggling against beliefs.”

— Amit Kalantri

“If decorum allowed, she would take tea at the hotel. Once inside, she might run into a rich northern gentleman who had…

— Karen Cecil Smith

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against…

— Carl Sagan

“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I…

— Roman Payne

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion…

— John Adams