Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

—John Gunther

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About John Gunther

John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and writer.

More quotations tagged with “superstition”

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.… Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

—Helen Keller

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

—Alexander Hodge

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

—Leigh Bardugo in Ruin and Rising

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