“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“There is superstition in avoiding superstitions”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“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
“Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them”
Voltaire
“Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication”
Thomas Jefferson
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.”
