Superstition is a belief or practice that is based on irrational or supernatural causes. Many people have shared their thoughts on superstition throughout history. Quotes about superstition often reflect skepticism or criticism towards these irrational beliefs. They provide insights into the human tendency to rely on superstitious ideas and the potential dangers that can arise from such thinking. Through these quotes, one can explore the human fascination with the supernatural and the need to question and challenge these beliefs in the pursuit of rationality and knowledge.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. — Edmund Burke
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother. — Voltaire
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
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. — Jose Bergamin
There is a fine line between ritual and superstition, and in a life-threatening business such as spaceflight, superstition can be comforting even to the nonbeliever. — Scott Kelly
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else. — H. P. Lovecraft
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. — Plutarch
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Norman Cook
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Short Superstition Quotes
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible. — Cecil Rhodes
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. — Babe Ruth
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda
If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night. — American Proverbs
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long. — American Proverbs
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. — Voltaire
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
I’m known for proving people wrong. Remember that. — Cardi B
If you go out a lot at night, you will probably meet ghosts. — Vietnamese Proverbs
If you were doing something safe, something you already knew could be done, you were wasting time. — Scott Kelly
Superstition Image Quotes
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination. — Elbert Hubbard
Science And Superstition Quotes
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways. — Gad Saad
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations. — Abdu'l-Bahá
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
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. — Pope John Paul II
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.' — Max Planck
Religion Is Superstition Quotes
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. — Anne Nicol Gaylor
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement. — Federico Fellini
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. — Bahá'u'lláh
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 paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Marguerite Blessington
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Paul Kenneth Keller
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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 not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Keller
Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. — M. Scott Peck
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end. — Abdu'l-Bahá
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you." — Voltaire
I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish. — H. L. Mencken
Fear of the unknown is a destructive force. It causes people to make suboptimal choices by avoiding that fear. — Cliff Lerner
I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. — Richelle Mead
Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner. — John Young
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor. — Edward Gibbon
You have to be willing to question conventional wisdom and think for yourself. — Jim Simons
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
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear. — Thomas Carlyle
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth. — Louis Kronenberger
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. — Mahatma Gandhi
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — Erich Ludendorff
The greatest enemy of investment success is overconfidence. — Raoul Pal
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. — Anne Rice
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
What can we do with a creature who returns to his doom with such a free heart? — R.K. Narayan
In Conclusion
These quotes about superstition provoke contemplation on the impact of irrational beliefs on individuals and society. They encourage critical thinking and highlight the importance of relying on evidence and reason rather than superstitious notions. By reflecting on these quotes, one can gain a deeper understanding of the influence of superstition, its limitations, and the potential for human growth and progress when we embrace rationality and reject unfounded beliefs.
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