Superstitions Quotes - Page 4

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.