SUPERSTITION : If not religious, man will be superstitious. If he worships not the true God, he will have his idols. (Theodore Parker: U.S. minister of the Unitarian church, reformer, and abolitionist, whose words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., (1810-1860))

SUPERSTITION : Religion is not removed by removing superstition. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

SUPERSTITION : Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

SUPERSTITION : Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

SUPERSTITION : The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)