Quotes of: Superstition Keyword

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

Joseph Joubert

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

Andrew Scott

…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now what is it you eat? Oh yes, chocolate�...

Carpe Jugulum

credulity and superstition are close friends

Frederick Marryat

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

Francis Bacon

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

David Almond

Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many centuries earlier. Christian Humanists also wanted to get back to these ideas, but they were mainly concerned with learning abou...

The Catholic Reformation

Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

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

Polly Toynbee

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Theophrastus

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

Thomas Huxley

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Deepak Chopra

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

Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible.

Fakeer Ishavardas

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

Jose Bergamin

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

George Herbert

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.

George Holyoake

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

Duffy Daugherty

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk