Superstitions Quote by Hypatia Download Open image “To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,” — Hypatia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Superstitions Teach Terrible Terrible things Truth Truth is
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We always believe in ‘the truth’; only other people believe in superstitions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In Gautama Buddha’s day you could put superstitions and omens down to a lack of education, but I am not sure what the reasoning… — karma yeshe rabgye Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
