Superstition is the poetry of life.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses.

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.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

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

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

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

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.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Humanity has the stars in its future and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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

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.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly science into superstition and art into pedantry. Hence University education.