“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.”
Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“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
“The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other”
“There is superstition in avoiding superstitions”
“In superstition wise men follow fools”
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