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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SUPERIORITY
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 (1844-1923, French actress)
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 (1844-1923, French actress)
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite)
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784, French philosopher)
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824, French moralist)
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Doris Lessing (1919-, British novelist)
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799, German physicist, satirist)
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977, American comic actor)
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972, American poet)
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
John Selden (1584-1654, British jurist, statesman)
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! Somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.
Author Unknown
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-, American novelist)
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
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