Superstitions Quotes - Page 5

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.