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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Tucker Carlson

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thomas Fuller

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Charles Spurgeon

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Kurt Vonnegut

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

Adam Weishaupt

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Joseph Lewis

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.

Henry Giroux

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

John Calvin

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Tucker Carlson

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Johan Huizinga

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

William Inge

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Gil Gerard

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.

Denis Diderot

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

Polly Toynbee

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Benjamin Whichcote

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

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Stu Jackson

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Henry James

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

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

David Almond

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Anne Tyler

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

Duffy Daugherty

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

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

Judith Viorst

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

Curt Siodmak

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.

Howard Jacobson

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

Pope John Paul II

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

Joanna Trollope

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Jose Bergamin

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

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

James Fenimore Cooper

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

Mark Hopkins