Top Superstition Quotes
When I visited , in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about . During the course of the conversation, he told me that had made...
Joseph Lewis
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Superstition Definition
(n.) An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
(n.) An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
(n.) The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
(n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
(n.) Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual in...
Greta Christina
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May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monki...
Thomas Jefferson
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chains, freedom of opinion, hope, ignorance, light of science, monkish, reason, science, superstition
Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained,...
Joseph Heller
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bologna, catch 22, funny, hope, humor, inspiration, meditation, prayer, rational, superstition
A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival...
Luther Burbank
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