The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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.
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 no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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.
India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'
I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.
I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.
Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
