George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) Security is mostly a superstition.
Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764 When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
John Dewey (1859 - 1952) Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
Gail Godwin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
And not only to the ear of superstition is the sighing and the tread of hurrying feet audible in the long echoing passages leading to the convent door that has long been locked.
The thick oaken door was locked, and secured on the outside by an iron bar; but the goblin of superstition can creep through a keyhole into a baron's castle just as easily as it can into a fisherman's cottage, and why should he not creep in here, where Jørgen sat thinking of Long Martha and her wicked deeds?
Superstition made her alternately shudder with cold or burn with the heat of fever.
" It was a superstition, but a superstition of such a class, that he who knows the story and has seen this picture, need have only two words placed under the picture to make him understand it; and these two words are: "A mother.
'Let us leave the soul of the dead to their ball-play with the heads of the walruses,' they thought in their superstition, and they turned their whole attention to the song and dance.
