Superstition Quotes

334 Superstition quotes by 230 unique authors

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the… — Emma Goldman
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example.… — Mary Baker Eddy
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with… — Victor Hugo
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The… — Albert Einstein
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. — Christopher Hitchens
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and… — Bruce Springsteen
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force.… — Peter Drucker
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will… — Thomas Paine
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized… — Romain Rolland
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and… — Adrian Desmond
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who… — Jean-Paul Marat
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all… — Gerry Spence
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. — Swami Vivekananda
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus. — George Bernard Shaw
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends… — Karl Jaspers

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