Death Quote by Mary Stewart

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

— Anonymous

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that…

— Daniel Inouye

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstancesby set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being…

— Baruch Spinoza

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and…

— Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but…

— Baruch Spinoza

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and…

— Francis Bacon

“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to…

— Baruch Spinoza

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

— Erich Maria Remarque

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

— Francis Bacon

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy