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They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

John Selden

Colors

Superstition

Wrong

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Babe Ruth

Home

Superstition

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

Religion

Superstition

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.