Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.-Edmund Burke (1729-1797) _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]
Superstition--what is it but distrust in God! -Mary Cholmondeley _Let Loose in Dracula's Brood_
The inferior man‚s reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts.-H. L. Mencken, "Homo neanderthalis", The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember: it didn't work for the rabbit!= R. E. Shay
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread. -Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
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