Superstition Quotes

334 Superstition quotes by 230 unique authors

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
When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and,… — George Perkins Marsh
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only… — Leo Tolstoy
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more… — Emma Goldman
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. — Mario Puzo
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is,… — Albert Einstein
Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're… — Nicole Kidman
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as… — Mark Twain
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are… — Carl Jung
...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly… — John Cassian

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