Quotes and Sayings About Superstitions
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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
-- A.J. Ayer -
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
-- Adrian Desmond -
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
-- Albert Einstein -
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
-- Albert Einstein -
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
-- Amy Adams -
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
-- Andre Malraux -
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
-- Andre Malraux -
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 -
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 -
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
-- Anne Tyler -
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
-- Archibald Alexander Hodge -
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 -
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...
-- Blaise Cendrars -
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
-- Carl Jung -
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
-- Carl Sagan -
If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
-- Celia Green -
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
-- Charles Fort -
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
-- Charles Lamb -
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
-- Chinua Achebe -
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
-- David Almond -
I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.
-- David Niven -
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
-- Dion Fortune -
My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius
