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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

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.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Superstition is a senseless fear of God.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging.