Superstitions Quotes

375 Superstitions quotes by 249 unique authors

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name… — Ambrose Bierce
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism… — Julian Baggini
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. — Hal Clement
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response. — Ming-Dao Deng
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular… — Ferdinand Mount
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. — Elihu Palmer
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg
There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of… — Dion Fortune
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet… — Carl Sagan
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions… — Andrew Carnegie
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat. So what started… — Karch Kiraly
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. — Ambrose Bierce
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law… — Thomas Merton
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.… — A.J. Ayer
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it… — Swami Vivekananda
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its… — Theodore Roosevelt
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust… — Theodore Roosevelt

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