Quotes of Lore - somelinesforyou

“ Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The most infallible mark of ignorance is superstition. ”

- Stanislaus

“ When you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer? Superstition ain't the way! ”

- Stevie Wonder

“ Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. ”

- Duffy Daugherty

“ There is a superstition in avoiding superstition. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Science is organised knowledge. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Conscience without judgment is superstition. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ When your through learning, you're through. ”

- Vernon Law

“ Science of to-day — the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow — the superstition of to-day. ”

- Charles Fort

“ History warns us... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”

- Thomas Henry Huxley

“ The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Superstition is the reservoir of all truths. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Superstition is a senseless fear of God. ”

- Cicero

“ Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Superstition is... religion which is incongruous with intelligence. ”

- John Tyndall

“ There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. ”

- Cicero

“ All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Theology is classified superstition. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ If all the arts aspire to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. ”

- George Santayana

“ Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ That's the way it is, but with Arsenal it is more direct. I'm not attacking anyone, just we need to play quicker and alternate things a bit. The earlier the ball, the better. ”

- Thierry Henry

“ That's the way it is... It's not an exact science. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ Science will tell us what we need to do. ”

- Mary Landrieu

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

- Theophrastus
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