We boast our emancipation from many
superstitions; but if we have broken any
idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin
as heresies and to end as superstitions.
?T. H. Huxley
Men are probably nearer the central truth
in their superstitions than in their science.
?Henry David Thoreau
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to
astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
?Voltaire
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.
?Sarah Bernhardt
