The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.
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Nadine Gordimer
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
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Sir Francis Bacon
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Edmund Burke
I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.
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Voltaire
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
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Cicero
More Quotes By Sir Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
