Superstitions Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

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

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

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.

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

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.

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

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

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

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

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.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

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

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

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.

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 must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

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

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.