Superstitions Quotes · Page 11

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.

— Robert M. Price

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

— Martin Luther

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

— Andrew Dickson White

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

— James Randi

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

— Charles Fort

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all…

— Voltaire

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning…

— Larry Hurtado

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then…

— John Selden

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry…

— Emma Goldman

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right…

— William Hazlitt

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most…

— George MacDonald

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate…

— John Adams

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

— Mark Twain

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were…

— Mary Stewart

Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human…

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created…

— Bill Hicks

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical…

— Willa Cather

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

— David Hume

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

— Edward Gibbon

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

— David Niven

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

— Thomas Jefferson

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

— Gertrude Atherton

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social…

— Mario Bunge

I'm not superstitious. I don't really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.

— Richard Branson

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

— John Gunther

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

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

— John William Fletcher

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

— George Santayana

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

— Amit Kalantri

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

— Christen Press

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a…

— St. Jerome

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

— Christopher Hitchens