Superstition Quotes

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Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism… — Julian Baggini
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. — Hal Clement
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response. — Ming-Dao Deng
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular… — Ferdinand Mount
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. — Elihu Palmer
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of… — Dion Fortune
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet… — Carl Sagan
I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat. So what started… — Karch Kiraly
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. — Ambrose Bierce
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.… — A.J. Ayer
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its… — Theodore Roosevelt
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust… — Theodore Roosevelt
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it… — Swami Vivekananda
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious… — Benjamin Franklin

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