Superstition Quotes

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Nature, Men

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Education, Art, Science

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard

Home, Ignorance, America

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire

Knowledge, Ignorance, Human

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

Religion, Science, False

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Wise, Mother

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Fear, Wisdom, Beginning

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.
Isaac Asimov

Future, Important, Humanity

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke

Religion, Minds, Feeble

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

God, Mind, Brain

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

Men, Observe, Hits

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

Great, Science, Enthusiasm

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia

Men, Truth, Fight

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller

Nice, Making, Promises

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Hope, Human

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Rod Serling

Science, Light, Between

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert

Religion, Capable, Souls

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Down, Heaven

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth

Home, Made, Sure

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork

Religion, Science, Religious

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George Herbert

Between, Devil, Atheism

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot

Music, Age, Poetry

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge

Religion, Philosophy, Become

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Henry James

Women, Men, Others

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy Daugherty

End, Feeling, Game

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
Adam Weishaupt

Jealous, Against, Purpose

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch

Family, School, Nothing

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

Islam, Between, Reason

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religion, Christian, Soul

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