Chains Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

— Graham Joyce

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who…

— Carl Jung

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

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

— Joy Browne

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

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

— Tryon Edwards

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

— John Sterling

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

— Bernard Beckett