Quotes of Superstition - somelinesforyou

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

- Alexander Hodge

“ I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ”

- Babe Ruth

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

- Bertrand Russell

“ We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. ”

- Cicero

“ A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. ”

- George Iles

“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. ”

- John Gunther

“ When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ”

- Denis Diderot

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Cicero

“ It is bad luck to be superstitious. ”

- Andrew W. Mathis

“ It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. ”

- George Iles

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

- Bertrand Russell

“ A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. ”

- John Gunther

“ I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. ”

- Cicero

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

- Alexander Hodge

“ Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Adam Smith

“ Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. ”

- Marguerite Gardiner

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

- Joseph Joubert

“ Superstition is the poetry of life. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. ”

- Marlene Dietrich

“ The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. ”

- Doris Lessing
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