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

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins

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

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

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

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Countess of Blessington

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

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Joseph Lewis

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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

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

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

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan

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