Superstitions Quotes - Page 30

• Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Men, Vanity

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Medicine, Knows

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• There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

  Francis Bacon

  Avoiding

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Superstition'

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• Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Country, Cities

  Samuel Sharpe (1896). “Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom”

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