Quotes about superstitions
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 looks belief
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition. Edward Gibbon
superstitions tribes primitive
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Bill Maher
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 materialism
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
superstitions
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. Baruch Spinoza
superstitions belief our-time
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none. Celia Green
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 judgment conscience
Conscience without judgment is superstition. Benjamin Whichcote
superstitions benefits kind
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. Northrop Frye
superstitions poet practical-life
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
superstitions
Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
superstitions layers sensitive
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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 charm
The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. Christopher Hitchens
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 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 belief sin
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
superstitions crime
Such crimes has superstition caused. Lucretius
superstitions
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition. Martin Luther King, Jr.
superstitions impossible ethics
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins
superstitions
Religion is not removed by removing superstition. Marcus Tullius Cicero
superstitions destroying
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
superstitions worship pious
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. [Lat., Superstitio, in qua inest inanis timor Dei; religio, quae dei pio cultu continetur.]
superstitions
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
superstitions truth-is terrible
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing, Hypatia