Superstitions Quotes

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

— James F. Cooper

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

— Graham Joyce

There is superstition in avoiding superstitions

— Francis Bacon Sr

Theology is Classified Superstition.

— Elbert Hubbard

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

— Elbert Hubbard

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

— Tea Obreht

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

— Danny Harris

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

— Tea Obreht

“The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.”

— Zygmunt Bauman

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

— Alan Watts

I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before…

— Maya Moore

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

— Benjamin Tucker

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

— H. L. Mencken

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

— Mark Twain

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

— Susan Neiman

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

— George Bernard Shaw

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

— Thomas Fuller

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with…

— Elizabeth David

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we…

— Swami Vivekananda

“In Gautama Buddha’s day you could put superstitions and omens down to a lack of education, but I am not sure what…

— karma yeshe rabgye

Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains…

— Howard Thompson

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,…

— Voltaire

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the…

— Anonymous

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

— Mark Twain

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were…

— Mary Stewart

Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human…

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order…

— Charles Darwin

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate…

— John Adams

...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the…

— John Cassian

God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall…

— Swami Vivekananda

“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were…

— A. L. Rowse

“Modern man is exposed to an almost unceasing “noise,” the noise of the radio, television, headlines, advertising, the movies, most of which…

— Erich Fromm

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all…

— Mark Twain

“Anne has small superstitions which she uses to dispel anxieties. For instance, if she can make it to the fourth stain on…

— Megan Boyle

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare…

— Charlton Heston

“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we…

— Sherif Gaber

The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate…

— David Hume