Superstition Quotes

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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of… — Adam Weishaupt
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind… — George Washington
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes… — Swami Vivekananda
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps — Thornton Wilder
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of… — Russell Kirk
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry â€” the most… — Emma Goldman
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction. — Ann Radcliffe
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness,… — Javier MarÃas
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still… — Learned Hand
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation… — Victor Hugo
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. — Anne Tyler
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more… — Carl Sagan
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization… — Cyril Connolly
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern… — George Gilder
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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