Superstition Quotes
334 Superstition quotes by 230 unique authors
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Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion…
— Carl Sagan
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In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact…
— Carl Sagan
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Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.
— Richelle Mead
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You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my…
— Richelle Mead
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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition,…
— Abraham Kuyper
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In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common;…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
— Unknown Author
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The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every…
— Emma Goldman
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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible…
— Mark Twain
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
— Denis Diderot
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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
— Jose Bergamin
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
— Umberto Eco
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Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
— Deepak Chopra
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I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
— Andrew Scott
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Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes,…
— Ciaran Hinds
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We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved,…
— Bernard Beckett
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
— Bernard Beckett
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of…
— Marie Rutkoski
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Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate…
— Henry Giroux
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Superstition is the poison of the mind.
— Unknown Author
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