Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Quotes
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCThere is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCCurses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BC