Doubt Quote by Umberto Eco

“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

“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we…

— Carl Sagan

“I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have no business to be an unbeliever. You ought to stand for all the things these stupid people call superstitions. Come now, don't…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.”

— Yangsze Choo

“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

“His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions.”

— Herman Melville

“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,…

— H.L. Mencken

“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who…

— Francis Bacon

“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

“Nay, if we should suppose, what never happens, that a popular religion were found, in which it was expressly declared, that nothing but morality…

— David Hume