Evidence Quote by George Iles Download Open image “A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.” — George Iles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evidence Explanation Inspirational Premature Science Statistics Superstitions Time
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is the weakness of the human mind; it is inherent in that mind; it has always been, and always will be — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. — George Iles Copy Share Image
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest… — George Iles Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles Copy Share Image
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles Copy Share Image
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. — George Iles Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... - They are searching evidence to PIN YOU.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else,… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
