The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — Erich Ludendorff Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar." — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image