Superstition Quotes

334 quotes by 230 authors

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? — Robert Green Ingersoll
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness… — Arthur Balfour
Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. — George Iles
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in… — Paul Washer
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had… — Sebastian Faulks
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. — Gore Vidal
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. — Theophrastus
The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. — Graham Joyce
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple… — H. L. Mencken
The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten. — Dion Fortune
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger. — Jacque Fresco
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous… — Bryan Fischer
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,… — Unknown Author

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