The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it but truth is a point of view and so is changeable.

I don't have any superstitions but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse and morality without religion is impossible.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that throughout the ages has blended superstition trickery and religion.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

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

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

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

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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

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.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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.