Superstitions Quotes

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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
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon
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
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
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. — Edmund Burke
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
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
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
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
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
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
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition. — Benjamin Tucker
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
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
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
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. — Martin Luther
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
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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