Superstitions Quotes - Page 3

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

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

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

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.