You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.” — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows).… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern,… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is that we are running after the superstitions while we also know it, nothing is there to get.” — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it… — Garrett Fort Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. — Gustave Herve Copy Share Image
The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible. — Louis B. Mayer Copy Share Image
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a… — David Wright Copy Share Image
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“People tend to hold a lot of superstitions when it comes to old graveyards,” — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
