We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly th...
could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell of superstition and in ignorance. He could not understand why people would not accept 'new truths with gladness.' He also knew, however, ...
If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellio...
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circu...
POUND We spend twelve hundred generations developing so-called civilization to the point where it produces an expert who can offer us salvation from our superstitions, and all we end up with is another superstition! If it takes someone like Freud to ...
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Superstition is another word for Everyday life.
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Let us pray for wisdom not for superstitions.
I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
