Superstition Quotes
If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method'.
Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.
There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.
Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.
If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.
The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.
Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock!
The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.
History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.
When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.
It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).
Metaphysics is not the result of understanding the limitations of physics.It’s rather the result of the limitation in understanding physics.
...people don't think in chu
Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.
Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.