Superstitions Quotes

375 Superstitions quotes by 249 unique authors

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone… — Luther Burbank
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have… — Jawaharlal Nehru
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once… — Luther Burbank
The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any… — Vladimir Lenin
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very… — Carl Sagan
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. — Susan Neiman
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...… — C.S. Lewis
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and… — Bill Vaughan
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition. — David Wright
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. — Thomas Fuller
Superstition is the poetry of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. — Ulysses S. Grant
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry,… — Denis Diderot
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. — Marlene Dietrich
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. — George Herbert
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to… — Christopher Hitchens
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. — Elbert Hubbard
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The… — Hypatia
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so… — Hypatia
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation,… — Henry James
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. — Joseph Joubert

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