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Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.
— Henry Allingham
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.
— Carl Sagan
Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true.
— R.A. Mathis
A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
— Gertrude Atherton
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
— Seneca The Younger
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
— Stefan Molyneux
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
— Richard Whately
Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry ...
— J.K. Rowling
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
— Chinua Achebe
Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition.
— Richard Dawkins
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
— Silius Italicus
Unfortunately, Feng Shui has mingled with superstition. Luckily, it's easy to expose myths. Don't think 'things', think 'energy'.
— Stefan Emunds
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
— James Buchanan
The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.
— Thomas Merton
...people don't think in churches.[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce
Christianity is such a silly religion.
— Gore Vidal
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
— Benjamin Haydon
But superstition, like belief, must die ...
— Philip Larkin
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Fake Canadian superstition: If you allow your pet bear to sleep in your bed, it will ruin your breathing by slowing it down or stopping it entirely.
— Matthew Santoro
I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.
— Jeff Bridges
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
— Benjamin Whichcote
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
— Francis Bacon
The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.
— E. M. Forster
It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true.
— Jeff VanderMeer
I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.
— Richelle Mead
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
— Baruch Spinoza
Superstition is another word for Everyday life.
— Lionel Suggs
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
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
— Polly Toynbee
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
— Marguerite Gardiner
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
— Gore Vidal
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.
— G.K. Chesterton
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
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.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
— Stefan Molyneux
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[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.
— Jonah Goldberg
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies
— Edward Gibbon
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts.
— John Muir
Such heinous acts could superstition prompt.12
— Titus Lucretius Carus
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
— James F. Cooper
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.
— Peter Boghossian
My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
— Donald E. Westlake
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
— Charles Lindbergh
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
— Francis Bacon
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy] — Abraham Lincoln
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
— Susan Neiman
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
— James F. Cooper
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
— Stefan Molyneux
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
— Edmund Blake
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
— John William Fletcher
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
— Aristophanes
I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
— Andrew Scott
Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.
— Francis Crick
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
— Baron D'Holbach
There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence.
— Leo Tolstoy
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.
— Andrew Dickson White
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
— Lindley Murray
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidenceand punishes those who do. — Peter Boghossian
Superstition is but the fear of belief.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
— Michel De Montaigne
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
— Aldous Huxley
Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.
— Carl Sagan
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.
— Sunday Adelaja
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.
— David Wright
I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing.
— Michael Cunningham
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
— Steven Weinberg
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.
— George Holyoake
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
— Joseph Lewis
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
— Laurence Sterne
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.
— Leigh Bardugo
Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security.
— Steven Johnson
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
— Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
— William Gilmore Simms
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero