Superstitions Quotes · Page 10

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

— Frank Zappa

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

— Jeremy Taylor

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to…

— H. Rider Haggard

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

— Swami Vivekananda

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one…

— Thomas Jefferson

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Carl Sagan

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the…

— Francis Bacon

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and…

— Anonymous

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance…

— Mark Twain

“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second…

— Carl Sagan

A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition.…

— Niels Bohr

Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit…

— Swami Vivekananda

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since…

— Susie Bright

He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of…

— Richard Bach

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I have been around long enough to discount most superstitions for what they are: I was around when many of them began…

— Kevin Hearne

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order…

— Charles Darwin

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

— Jim Goad

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

— John Adams

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

— Anonymous

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

— David Almond

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

— H. L. Mencken

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

— Joy Browne

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

— Polly Toynbee

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

— Michael Ramsey

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

— Cecil Rhodes

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

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

— Jerry A. Coyne

I'm not one to believe in superstitions or jinxes or curses or anything like that.

— Justin Tucker

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go…

— Amy Adams