Superstitions Quotes

375 Superstitions quotes by 249 unique authors

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
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot
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
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
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — James Anthony Froude
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
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein
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
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty. — David Hume
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
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
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
... 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

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