Superstition Quotes

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

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

In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature,

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.