Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before a game.

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

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