Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
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
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Countess of Blessington
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Joseph Lewis
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
Garrett Fort
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
They that are against superstition often times run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
John Selden
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Polly Toynbee
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
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge
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.
Denis Diderot
You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.
Curt Siodmak
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 devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George Herbert
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch
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
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan
The only foes that threaten
Elbert Hubbard
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
George Bernard Shaw
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Benjamin Whichcote
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
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.
Gil Gerard
I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
George Herman
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
Joanna Trollope
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Tucker Carlson
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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.
Adam Weishaupt
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
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy Daugherty
