Superstition Quotes
334 quotes by 230 authors
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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
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
— Charles Lindbergh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
— George Iles
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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
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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
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
— Gore Vidal
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
— Theophrastus
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The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.
— Graham Joyce
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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
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The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.
— Robert M. Price
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Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
— Dion Fortune
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As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
— Jacque Fresco
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
— Jean-Francois de La Harpe
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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
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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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