(109 quotes found)
“Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them”
Voltaire
“Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“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
“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”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it”
Mark Twain
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
Pope John Paul II
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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.”
