This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.