Superstition Quotes

Superstition Quote of the day

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

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.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

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

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

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

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

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.