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It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.
View quotes by Emma Goldman

Such crimes has superstition caused.
View quotes by Lucretius

Poetry is the mother of superstition.
View quotes by Thomas Sprat

Superstition is the poetry of life.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
View quotes by Duffy Daugherty

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
View quotes by Francis Bacon

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
View quotes by Adam Smith

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
View quotes by William Ralph Inge

We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?
View quotes by Richard Dawkins

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.
View quotes by Hal Clement

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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.
View quotes by Denis Diderot

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colours but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
View quotes by John Selden

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.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
View quotes by Bertrand Russell

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

View quotes by Pope John Paul II



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