Approach Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of…

— Sadegh Hedayat

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

— Joseph Lewis

But superstition, like belief, must die.

— Philip Larkin

“Do not disturb your mind,” said Imlac, “with other hopes or fears than reason may suggest; if you are pleased with the prognostics of…

— Samuel Johnson

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

— Elihu Palmer

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

— Ann Radcliffe

“The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.”

— C.L. Bevill

“A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude, that…

— Edward Gibbon

Superstition is the poetry of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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