63 Superstition Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Helen Keller

Life Nature Experience Men Long Nothing Danger Run Daring Security Superstition Outright Long Run Adventure Mostly Safer Does Nor Exist Than Children Either Avoiding Whole Exposure

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. Bernard Beckett

Future Confidence Fear Problems Face Differences Resolved Type Solved Ability Spirit Uncertainty Superstition Optimism Curiosity Human Belief Human Spirit Fragile

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith

Great Science Enthusiasm Poison Superstition Antidote

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

Wisdom Fear Cruelty Beginning Superstition Main Main Source Source Sources Conquer

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke

Religion Minds Superstition Feeble

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. Robert Green Ingersoll

Great Man Darkness Torch Great Man Beacon Prophecy Inspiration Superstition Night

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II

Religion Science Purify Superstition Absolutes Idolatry False Error

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. Hypatia

Truth You Fight Truth Is Will Men Living Changeable More Fact Superstition Point Point Of View Since Intangible Quickly Get Quite Often In Fact Refute Cannot View

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. John Calvin

God Man Mind Will Own Some Superstition He Like Idol Idolatry His Brain Forge Store Forsake Much Certain Believes

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. Rod Serling

Man Science Light Space Dimension Shadow Superstition Vast Between Beyond Known Timeless Infinity Middle Middle Ground Which Fifth Ground

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. Francis Bacon

Men Superstition Observe Misses Hits Root Thing

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. Adam Weishaupt

Great Clouds Will Understanding Sun Out Object Superstition Attaining Which Held Prejudice Means Reason Illumination Enlightening Association

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

Home Ignorance Enemies Incompetence Foes Threaten Only Superstition America

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' Gretchen Rubin

Logical Behavior Power Outcome Object Superstition Superstitious Between Most Irrational Influence Them Us Connection Belief

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. Robert Bork

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every Beneath Prohibition Fact Superstition Very Illness Conscious

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution. Charles Spurgeon

Ignorance Three Power Minds Superstition Retain Powerful Over Most Most Powerful Persecution Rome Means Used Apparent Her

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Conrad Black

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. George Herbert

World Devil Atheism Superstition Divides Between

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