Personal-quotes Quote by Rickey Russell

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort…

— John Calvin

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

“Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers is condemned…

— Sam Harris

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions,…

— Voltaire

“Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a…

— Santosh Kalwar

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

— Marlene Dietrich

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“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

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

— Anonymous

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

— Aulus Gellius