Advancement Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is…

— Hypatia

“superstition is what remains after the original understanding of a concept has been lost over time.”

— Freddy Silva

“There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by…

— Charles A. Coulombe

“There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to…

— Edgar Allan Poe

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

— Susan Neiman

“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet…

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age…

— Helen Hayes

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

— Rakesh Sharma

“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.”

— Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari