Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them

Vulnerability is the actor’s superpower, allowing the audience to connect on a profound level.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural

The one thing I’ve always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit – meaning not in front of it – so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don’t know if it’s a superstitious thing, but it’s actually how I recorded my first album.

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy… to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous… let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition – even when it seems to be doing a little good – we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

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

Superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.