Superstition Quotes

334 quotes by 230 authors

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will… — Thomas Paine
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized… — Romain Rolland
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and… — Adrian Desmond
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who… — Jean-Paul Marat
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all… — Gerry Spence
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. — Swami Vivekananda
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus. — George Bernard Shaw
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends… — Karl Jaspers
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes… — Blaise Cendrars
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. — Doris Lessing
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe.… — Mortimer Adler
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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