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Superstition
Superstition is a set of behaviors that are related to magical thinking,
whereby the practitioner believes that the future, or the outcome of
certain events, can be influenced by certain specified behaviors.
Superstition is a belief in something not justified by reason or
evidence. It is an unreasonable belief based on ignorance and sometimes
fears. Superstition can also lead to ignorance in case of some diseases
and this can lead to drastic results.
These quotes are quoted to show the effects of superstition on society
and how it leads to irrationality and ignorance. This ignorance can lead
to a lot of problems in case of any epidemic or deadly disease. And
these quotes can also b used to drive people to be more scientific and
rational rather than being superstitious.
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
Alexander Hodge
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of
other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my
life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its
laws or its songs either.
Mark Twain
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes
begging.
Martin Luther
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home
run.
Babe Ruth
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken
any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Joseph Lewis
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 is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.
John Tyndall
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
Tryon Edwards
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end
as superstitions.
T.
H. Huxley
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in
their science.
Henry David Thoreau
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad
daughter of a wise mother.
Voltaire
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Iles
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life
is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American
superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunther
Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
Cicero
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