Superstitions Quotes - Page 9

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

Superstitions add texture to life.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.