A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin

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

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters

Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Benjamin Whichcote

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

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

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

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.
Gil Gerard

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
George Herman

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
Joanna Trollope

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.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Tucker Carlson

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

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

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