Superstitions Quotes

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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.