Superstitions Quotes

375 Superstitions quotes by 249 unique authors

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness… — Arthur Balfour
Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. — George Iles
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in… — Paul Washer
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well,… — William Carey
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology. — Unknown Author
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had… — Sebastian Faulks
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. — Gore Vidal
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. — Theophrastus
The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. — Graham Joyce
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 Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten. — Dion Fortune
I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee. — Natalie Coughlin
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger. — Jacque Fresco
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this… — Bryan Magee
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

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