superstition quotes

• 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) [fear/source/superstition/fear]
• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke) [superstition/religion]
• Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. (Marcus Cicero) [superstition/fear/god]
• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. (Denis Diderot) [superstition/age/human/excellence]
• Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. (Thomas Fuller) [nice/superstition/promises]
• Superstition is the poetry of life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [superstition/poetry/life]
• It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. (Emma Goldman) [superstition/growth/people/superstition]
• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. (Victor Hugo) [superstition/life/human/war]
• 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) [security/superstition/nature/men]
• The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. (Doris Lessing) [superstition]
• Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. (Martin Luther) [superstition/truth]
• 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) [fear/source/superstition/fear]

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