Superstitions Quotes - Page 7

• The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

  Graham Joyce

  Modern

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel”, p.164, Anchor

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• Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Common Sense, Epithet, Blasphemy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1217, Library of Alexandria

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• Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

  Carl Sagan

  Way, Bluffs, Against Religion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.65, Ballantine Books

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• Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Progress, World, Enlightening

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.310, Library of Alexandria

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• Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, People, Worry

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• We're all entitled to our superstitions.

  Tea Obreht

  Entitled

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• Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Materialism

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• You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Ignorance, Long, Community

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “The Spinoza Problem: A Novel”, p.84, Basic Books

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• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Revenge, Dark

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• The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Liberty, Lasts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Logic, I Know You Love Me

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Love You, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Faith, Real, Degrees

  Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Real, Ignorance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

  Gustave Herve

  Patriotism, Brutal, Inhumane

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• I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Memories, Disappointment

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• For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Cancer, Israel

  "Childish Superstition: Einstein's Letter Makes View of Religion Relatively Clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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• The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Men, Primitive Man

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

  Dion Fortune

  Use, Forgotten, Form

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Training & Work of an Initiate”, p.88, Weiser Books

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• How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in the back of their Bible, and put the date and if the devil ever comes to them, they need to show him that. That is Roman superstition, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. You see, we've turned the gospel into a flu-shot.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Prayer, Stupid

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• When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well, I have God, and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph. (William Carey, quoted in Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope, Banner of Truth 1971, p 140.)

  William Carey

  Strong, Overcoming, Triumph

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• Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

  Thomas Thomson

  Astrology, Magic, Chemistry

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• We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Light, Political, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times?

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Real, Independent

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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