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Carl Sagan
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
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Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linn?us helped it on to an undeserved permanence when he devised t
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Francis Bacon
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
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Adam Smith
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Deng Ming-Dao
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Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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Francis Bacon
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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.
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John William Fletcher
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Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
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George Bernard Shaw
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Hellen Keller
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Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Helen Keller
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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 not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Carl Sagan
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
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Peter Drucker
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Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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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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Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds." -- Burke
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"I figured it was superstition passed onto children." - Ro Laren
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"Religion is superstition enslaving a philosophy." - Inge
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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of b
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"magic, n. an art of converting superstition into coin."
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"Superstition is the poetry of life." -- Von Goethe
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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