Superstition Quotes

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke)
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition. View quote
Francis Bacon
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. View quote
Babe Ruth
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Superstition is the poetry of life. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. View quote
Voltaire
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. View quote
Theophrastus
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. (Henry James)
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. View quote
Helen Keller
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. View quote
Denis Diderot
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. View quote
Voltaire
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. View quote
Adam Smith
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. View quote
Cicero
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. View quote
Gore Vidal
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon)
The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren't any. View quote
George Alec Effinger
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way. View quote
Stevie Wonder
We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone. View quote
Arthur Miller