Superstitions Quotes

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

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.

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?