Cowardice Quote by Theophrastus Download Open image “Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.” — Theophrastus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowardice Superstitions
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacles to our progress exist within our own lives in the form of cowardice and the tendency to give up. Breaking through… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Man alone mesures time. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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