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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Author:
Benjamin Whichcote
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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.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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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.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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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.
Author:
Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Author:
Voltaire
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Author:
Judith Viorst
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
Author:
Joanna Trollope
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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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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.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Author:
Adam Smith
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You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.
Author:
Curt Siodmak
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Author:
George Shaw
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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.
Author:
Rod Serling
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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.
Author:
John Selden
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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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.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Author:
Joseph Lewis
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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.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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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.
Author:
Henry James
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Author:
William Inge
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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.
Author:
Hypatia
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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Author:
Johan Huizinga
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Author:
Mark Hopkins
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I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Author:
George Herman
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Author:
George Herbert
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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.
Author:
Gil Gerard
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
Author:
Garrett Fort
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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.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Author:
Duffy Daugherty
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Author:
James Cooper
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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.
Author:
Hal Clement
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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Author:
Tucker Carlson
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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.
Author:
John Calvin
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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.
Author:
Robert Bork
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Author:
Countess Blessington
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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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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.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
