Superstitions Quotes

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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous… — Bryan Fischer
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,… — Unknown Author
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness… — Unknown Author
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his… — William Kingdon Clifford
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. — Johan Huizinga
The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the… — Sydney J. Harris
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our… — Terry Eagleton
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken… — Conrad Black
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways… — Terence Fisher
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast… — Jean Paul
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is… — Unknown Author
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing, — Hypatia
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or… — Bertrand Russell

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