Superstitions Quotes

375 Superstitions quotes by 249 unique authors

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
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be.… — Lenny Bruce
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the… — Emma Goldman
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example.… — Mary Baker Eddy
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .… — Carlton J. H. Hayes
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire.… — Earl Nightingale
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with… — Victor Hugo
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The… — Albert Einstein
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. — Christopher Hitchens
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and… — Bruce Springsteen
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force.… — Peter Drucker
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey

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