Quotes of: Superstitions Keyword

The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.

Marquis de Sade

Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people?' 'I certainly did think it.' 'Well, then, you may unthink it.

Mark Twain

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and supersti...

Bernard Beckett

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are of...

Conrad Black

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

Elie Wiesel

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

John Selden

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

Joanna Trollope

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

Gretchen Rubin

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

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

William Robertson Smith

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

Amy Adams

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

Anne Tyler

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

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Ulysses S. Grant

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate

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

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...

Moravagine

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { }

The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.

Philosophical Dictionary