Superstitions Quotes

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

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

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.