Superstition Quotes

Superstition Quote of the day

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

One way or another, all humans are superstitious.

If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!

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 religious scholar should understand.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

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​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method'.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

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

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.