The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions. — Brian McBride Copy Share Image
“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over... — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we… — Sherif Gaber 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
“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Modern man is exposed to an almost unceasing “noise,” the noise of the radio, television, headlines, advertising, the movies, most of which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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