Definition of Superstition
Superstition
An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
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Superstition Quotations
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller
Superstition Translations
superstition in Danish is overtro
superstition in Dutch is bijgeloof
superstition in French is superstition
superstition in German is Aberglaube {m}
superstition in Hungarian is babona
superstition in Swedish is vidskepelse, vantro, skrock
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