Superstitions Quotes
375 quotes by 258 authors
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
— Isaac Asimov
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
— Francis Bacon
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I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I…
— Amy Adams
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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe…
— Robert Bork
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
— Edmund Burke
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that…
— John Calvin
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery…
— Criss Angel
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
— Baron d'Holbach
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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization,…
— Culbert Olson
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Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the…
— Gad Saad
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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
— Benjamin Tucker
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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
— Duffy Daugherty
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real…
— Charles Darwin
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on…
— Albert Einstein
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
— Baron d'Holbach
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
— George Washington
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Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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