Age Quote by Elihu Palmer

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

— Anonymous

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

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going…

— Christopher Hitchens

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies;…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

— Bernard Beckett

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

— Mark Twain

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

— George Iles

“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no reason to…

— R. G. Collingwood

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

— Voltaire

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age…

— Helen Hayes

“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein