Bill Maher Quotes

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.