Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“I can say with certitude that superstitions are more deleterious than black magic.” — Sagey Malik Copy Share Image
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We always believe in ‘the truth’; only other people believe in superstitions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“To call the belief in substantial human equality a superstition is to insult superstition. It might be unwarranted to believe in leprechauns,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image