Quotes: Superstition

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

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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

Superstition is the poetry of life.