Superstitions Quotes · Page 11

“There is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

— Jason Akermanis

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the…

— Anonymous

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

— Northrop Frye

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

— Duffy Daugherty

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

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a…

— Hal Clement

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

— Havelock Ellis

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with…

— Blaise Pascal

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what…

— Seth MacFarlane

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke…

— Jimmy Rollins

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him…

— Cormac McCarthy

The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and…

— Sam Harris

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and…

— Adam Smith

“If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against…

— H. P. Lovecraft

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity…

— Arthur Balfour

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most…

— Hypatia

Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning…

— Ray Lankester

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…

— Isaac Asimov

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have…

— John Calvin

God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,…

— Martin Luther

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the…

— Culbert Olson

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

— Lord Acton

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

— Anonymous

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

— David Wright

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

— Philip Jose Farmer

“People tend to hold a lot of superstitions when it comes to old graveyards,”

— Amanda Stevens

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

— Ann Radcliffe

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

— Mason Cooley

I had some superstitions when I was little. And a winning pen is always a good thing to have.

— Judit Polgar

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

— Suetonius

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

— Walker Percy

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

— Baruch Spinoza

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

— Jim Goad

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

— John Adams

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

— Cecil Rhodes

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

— Michael Ramsey