Quotes

Quotes about Superstition

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.

Henry David Voltaire

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

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Joseph Lewis

Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.

John Tyndall

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Tryon Edwards

Superstition is a senseless fear of God.

Tryon 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

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.

Francis Bacon

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Charlotte Voltaire