Superstitions Quotations

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Superstition has its practical uses.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

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

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

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

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

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

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

But superstition, like belief, must die...

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

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

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind. [Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. [Lat., Superstitio, in qua inest inanis timor Dei; religio, quae dei pio cultu continetur.]

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.