Superstitions Quotes
375 quotes by 249 authors
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Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling…
— Emma Goldman
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The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is…
— Mark Twain
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Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence
— George Holyoake
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If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had…
— Robert Breault
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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
— John Arbuthnot
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The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
— Thomas Paine
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Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
— James Anthony Froude
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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and…
— Ray Lankester
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
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For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
— Albert Einstein
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
— David Hume
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual…
— Albert Einstein
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