Quotes about superstitions
superstitions different submission
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with. Blaise Pascal
superstitions belief our-time
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none. Celia Green
superstitions materialism
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
superstitions
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. Baruch Spinoza
superstitions worst tolerable
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. Doris Lessing
superstitions belief anarchist
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all. Andre Malraux
superstitions looks belief
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition. Edward Gibbon
superstitions way bluffs
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. Carl Sagan
superstitions tribes primitive
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Bill Maher
superstitions judgment conscience
Conscience without judgment is superstition. Benjamin Whichcote
superstitions belief dies
But superstition, like belief, must die... Philip Larkin
superstitions belief nexus
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. Ludwig Wittgenstein
superstitions
One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them. Nomar Garciaparra
superstitions fourth loses
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
superstitions needs grows
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. Stephen King
superstitions entitled
We're all entitled to our superstitions. Tea Obreht
superstitions ritual
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
superstitions speak loud
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going. Steven Blum
superstitions accomplished superstitious
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. Ulysses S. Grant
superstitions academy built
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. Robert Green Ingersoll
superstitions worship invisible
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. Thomas Hobbes
superstitions charm
The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. Christopher Hitchens
superstitions modern
The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. Graham Joyce
superstitions shapes reason
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present. Iain Banks
superstitions loses bigotry
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
superstitions public-opinion prejudice
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. Gore Vidal
superstitions belief sin
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. Friedrich Nietzsche
superstitions statistics explanation
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
superstitions belief true-faith
Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven. Ezra Levant
superstitions avoiding
There is superstition in avoiding superstition. Francis Bacon
superstitions truth-is terrible
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing, Hypatia
superstitions belief idiot
The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots. H. L. Mencken
superstitions littles said
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. Ian Mcewan