Superstition Quotes
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality
Emma Goldman
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
Dr. Carl Sagan
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother
Voltaire
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
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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
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If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.
Ann Kuehling
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
Adam Blankman
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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
Abdul Walid
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