Best things Quote by David Hume

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

— David Hume

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

— Richard Rohr

The corruption of the best is the worst.

— Maude Royden

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

— Al-Ghazali

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

— Andrew Dickson White

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the…

— Frank Herbert

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the…

— Ronald Fisher

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

— Anna Leonowens

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true…

— David Hume