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Cicero
Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
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Henry David Thoreau
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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John Tyndall
Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.
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Mark Twain
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
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Martin Luther
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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Sarah Bernhardt
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
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T. H. Huxley
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Tryon Edwards
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
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Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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