(107 quotes found)
“Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them”
Voltaire
“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
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it”
Mark Twain
“Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition”
Paul Keller
“Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“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
“We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication”
“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge”
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