Superstitions Quotes

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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open… — David Hume
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to… — Thomas Jefferson
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of… — Kurt Vonnegut
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Unknown Author
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy,… — Samuel Chadwick
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow. — Unknown Author
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that… — Unknown Author
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Such crimes has superstition caused. — Lucretius
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple… — H. L. Mencken
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep… — Leo Tolstoy
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Leo Tolstoy
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could… — Benjamin Bloom
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is… — George Stigler
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate… — Hugh Laurie
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition. — Rudolf Virchow
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to… — William Feather
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason… — Ulysses S. Grant

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