Quotes about Superstition

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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. — Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'. — Stefan Molyneux
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the cha — Stefan Molyneux
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an ou — Francis Bacon
If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteent — Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by — Arne Tiselius
Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call h — Fakeer Ishavardas
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain — Abraham H. Maslow
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the dis — Stefan Molyneux
Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. — Voltaire, Candide and The Maid of Orleans
May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but f — Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, whe — Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were fl — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational supers — Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals
How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity cause — Jean Meslier, Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier
I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Ed — Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. Iii