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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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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
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
- Adam Smith
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
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief;
it is a superstition.
- Jose Bergamin
I have only one superstition...
Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- George Herman
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
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home,
and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
This is indeed a clash of civilisations,
not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
- Polly Toynbee
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
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
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary
for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
- William Ralph Inge
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -
but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
- Judith Viorst
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
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice
in face of the supernatural.
- Theophrastus
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
- Benjamin Whichcote
I never think about the actual process of writing.
I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
- Anne Tyler
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from
ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition
of the Christian religion.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
- Joseph Joubert
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
In the absence of evidence, superstition.
It's a Middle Ages thing.
That's my theory anyway.
- Tucker Carlson
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition,
in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
- Thomas Fuller
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
- George Herbert
Science can purify religion from error and superstition.
Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
- Pope John Paul II
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
- Joseph Lewis
Superstition is only the fear of belief,
while religion is the confidence.
- Countess of Blessington
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky
to be behind at the end of the game.
- Duffy Daugherty
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
- Francis Bacon
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
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side.
If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
- John Selden
You'll find superstition a contagious thing.
Some people let it get the better of them.
- Curt Siodmak
I had only one superstition.
I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth
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
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly,
science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry -
I have a superstition about talking about it!
- Joanna Trollope
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse,
and morality without religion is impossible.
- Mark Hopkins
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
- James F. Cooper
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between
the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
- Garrett Fort
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me,
not superstitions.
- Brian McBride
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to
have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Voltaire
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
- Marlene Dietrich
Everyone has his superstitions.
One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere,
accomplished.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow,
infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive
the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
- William Kingdon Clifford
It is the customary fate of new truths,
to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their
bondage more than all other adverse influences.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new
truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think.
At the moment our superstitions are tucked away,
but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes,
black masses.
- Terence Fisher
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths,
and miracles as poetic fantasies.
To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.
The child mind accepts and believes them,
and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can
he be in after years relieved of them.
- Hypatia
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all
the superstitions of other countries.
I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life,
they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in
just the same way as religion,
and something near to being universal among mankind;
and why this is so may be interesting,
but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content,
at least to me.
- Bryan Magee
The most dangerous man to any government is the man
who is able to think things out...
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the
government he lives under is dishonest,
insane, intolerable.
- H. L. Mencken
In better times the religion of the tribe or state
has nothing in common with the private and foreign
superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may
dictate to the individual.
- William Robertson Smith
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors;
and laying aside corrupt superstitions,
let them acknowledge their Father and Lord,
whose excellence cannot be estimated,
nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
- Lactantius
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If it turns out that there IS a God,
I don't think that he's evil.
I think that the worst you can say about him
is that basically he's an underachiever.
- the movie Love and Death
All religions are the same:
Religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
- Cathy Ladman
Basically my wife was immature.
I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
- Woody Allen
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom.
That was my way of being a bad girl.
- Sandra Bullock
Architecture is basically a container of something.
I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup,
but the tea.
- Yoshio Taniguchi
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