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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Superstition

WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.2 · 51 votes · 134 reads

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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

Superstition

William Faulkner

WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

3.8 · 29 votes · 152 reads

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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Superstition

George Santayana

PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Superstition

Harriet Beecher Stowe

WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

3.6 · 28 votes · 120 reads

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Superstition

Marcus Tulius Cicero

PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

5.0 · 37 votes

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

Superstition

French1754 · 18th century

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Superstition is the poetry of life.

Superstition

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

4.2 · 47 votes · 132 reads

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Superstition

PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

3.9 · 53 votes · 180 reads

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Superstition

WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

3.1 · 33 votes

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

Superstition

WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

3.0 · 62 votes

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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
Umberto Eco
NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century
3.2 · 36 votes · 135 reads
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Doris Lessing
WriterBritish1919 · 20th century
4.2 · 31 votes · 136 reads
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There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.8 · 20 votes · 158 reads
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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
PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century
4.1 · 7 votes · 50 reads
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