Superstition Quotes
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
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Superstition is the poison of the mind.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.
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People volunteer for war, and it is a strange and dark superstition that they will not volunteer for peace.
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I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.
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There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition.
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The unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.
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The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.
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Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.
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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
