Most Dangerous Superstition Quotes

#1. It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.

Elizabeth Goudge

#2. There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Seneca.

#4. Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Immanuel Kant

#5. Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

Wayne Dyer

#6. Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Uh - do you want to do it outside?
Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.

Eileen Wilks

#8. They took off running like a couple of spastic marathoners.

John Green

#9. [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

Arthur Brisbane

#10. I don't want to hold you hand!

C.S. Lewis

#11. Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

Gene Simmons

#12. Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

Andrew S. Grove

#13. You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

John Brunner

#14. They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

Vinton Cerf

#15. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

Stefan Molyneux

#16. Somehow, happiness is not diminished by being shared out with other people.

Jon Richardson